Showing posts with label over there. Show all posts
Showing posts with label over there. Show all posts
Sunday, August 5, 2012

Fluctuat nec Mergitur

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A girl came in the café and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they ...
Friday, April 6, 2012

These Boots Are Made for Walkin’

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These boots are made for walkin’ And that’s just what they’ll do. One of these days these boots Are gonna walk all over you. — Lee Haz...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Stranger in a Strange Land

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There was so much to grok, so little to grok from. — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land Simon Kuper has a lovely little piece ...
Saturday, May 1, 2010

American Baby

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If these walls came crumblin' down Fell so hard, to make us lose our faith From what's left you'd figure it out Still make lemon...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

For Every Action ...

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Christopher Columbus: "Hello there, hello there. Heh, heh. Ahh ... We white men. Other side of ocean. My name ... Chris-to-pher ...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Psycho-geography

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Pfuel was one of those hopelessly and immutably self-confident men, self-confident to the point of martyrdom as only Germans are, because on...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Das Gift

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Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken sie abends wir trinken sie mittags und morgens wir trinken sie nachts wir trinken und trinken — Paul C...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Armageddon Outta Here

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Food fight! For those of you Dear Readers who nodded sagely at my most recent posts on the issue of banker pay, murmuring to yourself, ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Armageddon Rag

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Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland But I think it's all overdone Exaggerating this and exaggerating that They don't have no fun ...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

Hedenüppendieaßeiten1

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A target company stock price that is depressed. A weak US dollar. 2 Delusional foreign CEOs who never learn. 3 All for this one moment . 1 ...
Monday, December 10, 2007

Full Fifty Men

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"Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valor, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

Rénmínbì

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That's a relief. With the courteous assistance of those clever Dutch over at greatfirewallofchina.org , I just tested whether TED has be...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Go West, Young Sheik

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Greg Corcoran over at the WSJ DealJournal has a cautionary message today for US investment banks already reeling from subprime contagion, ...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Monsieur ... Qui?

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As if we needed further proof that life is simply not just, news comes from across the pond that the French—of all people—have no respect f...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Vendue!

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You know, it occurred to me today that I have been banging on about private equity and leveraged buyouts for months in these pages without t...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Tax Breaks for Everyone!

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Recriminations are flying across the pond among the private equity pooh-bahs of Old Blighty today after senior officials of the industry pub...