Ramen Review

All this is severely shocking for das deutsche Volk of course, given that it has been less than one week since the dead of not-at-all-Good Friday were buried. But that’s life in Afghanistan for you, and it is not like the locals would be given much of a respite by any party in this disgusting war splendid little thing that colloquially might be called “war” by some either. And if you think: “at least it has been going for a … read more

See also this Onion spoof act of clairvoyance.

“… the biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq.”
(George W. Bush, December 1st, 2008)

No.
The biggest regret — the only regret — is that Barbara Pierce Bush did not, shortly after V-J Day, speak the magic words:

“George Herbert Walker, pull out before you cum.”

Citigroup to cut 50K more jobs. On top of the 13K that already are gone, and the 9K that remain to be done in.

“What all of us have done - and perhaps injudiciously - we’ve added a lot of people over [...] this very benign period [...]”
Citigroup chairman Win Bischoff, November 17th 2008

Maybe so. What you guys did do was to play around, as late as 2008, with investments — a lot of investments — that had “EXPIRY DATE DUE … read more