AdamSmith

Another one for the year ahead... ...and one in appreciation of our hard-working moderators here...

Better than being a bipolar bear! (...as some NYC queer spots seem to be full of.)

Shrinks of my acquaintance (Cambridge being brim-full of 'em, as you can imagine) find him reprehensible and worse for dragooning fragile barely recovering folk into presenting themselves as spectacle to fuel his media product.

They certainly win the corporate Tin Ear of the Decade award. Fascinating how even near-death experiences often can't rearrange the corporate DNA. Gerstner did it at IBM, Mulally is doing it at Ford, but just goes to show there aren't enough Gerstners or Mulallys to go around. People I know inside GM despair that despite the purge during bankruptcy of many surplus idiots, relief (fair or not to the labor force) from the pension overhangs etc., forced reduction in its absurdly large number of brands, new senior mgt, and promotion of fair numbers of competent deserving managers to replace time-servers and "presiders" who had been sitting on them, nonetheless the thing is now drifting right back into the same stifling brain-dead bureaucratic inability to make or execute timely correct decisions as drove it into the ditch before. Argh.

In this case -- the Paracleat? ...Expect me shortly to be struck down by lightning.

I must be straight then. But in fairness, for a popular media success, Savage could be worse. Look around. E.g., just get anyone in the professional psych community rolling on Dr. Drew.

Class.

Jesus H. Christ on a raft! Now I have to clean off the underside of my desk. Well, set those site coders to work on it! Six years and they still haven't got that function implemented.

Poulet? Or something else?

All eminently reasonable. Let us know how this evening goes, if it does.

ROFL Department of Can't Make This Stuff Up!

I have this image of dozens of twinks tumbling out of a giant slot machine.

LOL Pleasures of rubbing it in.

What, you didn't get the Homeland Security memo directing nationwide conformance to the Standard Snoopable Configuration? (Oh, right. You're in Frogland. The gummint there already has your number.)

Perfect

...relevant? ...Unrelatedly, but spot on:

Well, do you tell them in advance, show them the ads you're looking at, and ask if they know the guys? That's why I presume to nose, kindly, into his business. Just hoping for him!

Cosby had a drug bit that included: On weed paranoia -- "Why ... is the sofa ... tilting up on one end?" On coke -- "People say, 'Oh, it makes you more intense!' Yeah ... but what if you're already an asshole?"

...Nosy minds want to know!

Latest: Krugman says --'Mint The Coin': http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2013/01/07/paul-krugman-trillion-dollar-coin_n_2427160.html?icid=hp_front_top_art

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="AdamSmith" data-cid="72976" data-time="1357398044"><p> U.S. citizens of Japanese descent learned during WWII just what can happen when that dusty old parchment is disregarded. Likewise Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus; likewise Adams' Alien & Sedition Act; the list goes on. These are not just abstract dangers.</p></blockquote> BTW, these examples needless to say are all of presidents I love. Imagine when some nut (read: not of my political bent) picks up Obama's extraconstitutional legacy and truly runs away with it.

Just received an email, with an obituary attached, for a former coworker who succumbed to cancer at age 41. We have tiffs, fights, ruptures, ended relationships. Then we have final things. Let us feel thanks we are still here to have all our troubles.

I should have been so lucky. Funny how trannies are so either/or -- sweet lil things, or else castrating teeth-mothers.

Speaking of beggars ... Why am I remembering a few street bums I knew in NYC who thought being nasty and abusive toward their marks was the best way to score?

Good. It's Monday night, bound to be dead business night for more than one working guy. You might well find good pickin's.