Dave, leave me alone. I’m sensitive. I learned how to drink tea with an upturned pinky in the posh dining hall of my residential college. (And I also watched rich kids puke their brains out on the floor at happy hour in the common room. Welcome to the Ivy League.)
Oddly inane OT, today, even for the OT. As for everyone’s agreement with jackal, I think we’ve all figured out the way to shut him up. yes, jackal, whatever you say, jackal, you’re always right jackal, brilliant, jackal. A week of that and no fights and I think his head explodes.
Dr. Slopey and I have been watching on DVD the (somewhat ponderous) Ken Burns American Experience treatment of New York City history. Last night it was ’29. Among other things, it recounted the tale of Bernard Baruch who apparently sold out before the crash after his shoeshine boy gave him a stock tip. Apparently he said “when shoeshine boys are giving stock tips, it’s time to get out.” Any of you finance types know how true/apocryphal that story is? I find Burns is big on the big story and mythmaking and not so keen on details or threading different story lines together.
dave, you know by now that you can dress MM up, but you can’t take her out. That goes for her sidekick bxgrl too. Crown Heights’ very own Thelma & Louise.
relatively speaking, Ivy schools are a bargain at ~50k/yr. so many so so private sch charge 40-50k/yr now.
Dave, leave me alone. I’m sensitive. I learned how to drink tea with an upturned pinky in the posh dining hall of my residential college. (And I also watched rich kids puke their brains out on the floor at happy hour in the common room. Welcome to the Ivy League.)
I find people from the Northeast to be very strange in their obsession with school names and “prestige”.
Oddly inane OT, today, even for the OT. As for everyone’s agreement with jackal, I think we’ve all figured out the way to shut him up. yes, jackal, whatever you say, jackal, you’re always right jackal, brilliant, jackal. A week of that and no fights and I think his head explodes.
Dr. Slopey and I have been watching on DVD the (somewhat ponderous) Ken Burns American Experience treatment of New York City history. Last night it was ’29. Among other things, it recounted the tale of Bernard Baruch who apparently sold out before the crash after his shoeshine boy gave him a stock tip. Apparently he said “when shoeshine boys are giving stock tips, it’s time to get out.” Any of you finance types know how true/apocryphal that story is? I find Burns is big on the big story and mythmaking and not so keen on details or threading different story lines together.
By Arkady on October 6, 2010 11:43 AM
Whoa! Most amazing is that Lech is agreeing w/ Obama!!
Why is that amazing? Didn’t you know that Lech is a slightly left of center registered Democrat?
dave, you know by now that you can dress MM up, but you can’t take her out. That goes for her sidekick bxgrl too. Crown Heights’ very own Thelma & Louise.
🙂
By lechacal on October 6, 2010 11:44 AM
“American middle class expectations about retirement are ridiculous. We are being told that retiring wealthy is what we should expect.”
Sorry but I’m not argeeing with all your Obama-loving left wing liberalism today.
Retiring wealthy is not an entitlement that you should “expect.”
If you haven’t worked, saved and planned for it, you don’t get it!!!
One solution would be later retirement ages rather than death panels Pete!
(I shouldn’t really discuss this stuff much online.)
Let’s Go Yankees!!!
Let’s Go Yankees!!!
Let’s Go Yankees!!!