And Jesus said unto the moneylenders, 'Lo, thou shalt bundle prime and sub-prime mortgages together into asset-backed securities that shall appear to have superb returns, and thou shalt sell them unto investors until the sub-prime borrowers cannot service their debt, asset values plummet, and the real rate of return…

You can fuck with your mouth you know. It's the nicest thing one can do for thy neighbor.

I just like to repost articles from Krugman's blog or the Plum Line. The defriending takes care of itself after that.

Coldplay just got a B, and they're definitely a band that any self-respecting hipster is obliged to hate on principle. So, the AV Club can be open-minded. Maybe it's possible that this album just sucked?

I hate when people use the term "operatic" for formally trained vocals. Lady has a highly trained voice, but it's not particularly good, and definitely not operatic.

It's hard to say by what criteria to judge mass murder, but I find the Mongol hordes particularly terrifying, more so than the Nazis, Soviets, or Maoists. Probably because of their dispassionate, indiscriminate mass murder, vs the Nazis' hate-fueled murder, or the Soviet and Maoist's murderous indifference. Many of…

I disagree that the 20th century was the most trouble time in history. The Mongol invasion kill something like 40m people, and that was when there were a lot fewer people around. It would be equivalent to 278m people by today's standards. 
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You lost me at "amazing sense of self-awareness."

My great-grandmother had 17 children. I've never seen a picture of her smiling.

I watched some documentary about PTSD, and one of the reasons there were so many more PTSD cases from Vietnam vs WW2 was the training during Vietnam was better at conditioning soldiers to shoot despite their moral objection to it. Something like 75% of Vietnam vets killed enemy soldiers, while only around 40% of WW2…

Don't worry, that's just his name for his naughty bits. They look like they're 72 and hang sad and frail like a scarecrow.

I loved it when he called blueberries huckleberries, and acted like the store was stupid for not knowing any better.