Apocalypse, Ciao!
Francie Stevens: “I’ve never caught a jewel thief before! It’s stimulating! It’s like... It’s like...”
John Robie: “Like sitting in a hot tub?”
— To Catch A Thief
Part of the real pleasure of...
Methinks Thou Dost Protest Too Much
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.— Arthur C. ClarkeAttentive Readers will realize that I have used my durable and insightful epigraph before, specifically in a post which defended my industry against accusatio...
Tort Reform
Overheard this morning at breakfast:Lawyer #1: “Being a litigator is like cleaning the Augean Stables: it’s not particularly pleasant work, but you know you’ll always have a job.”Lawyer #2: “That’s nothing. You should try representing in...
You’re Doing It Wrong
And he sampled the time-winds, sensing the turmoil, the storm nexus that now focused on this moment place. Even the faint gaps were closed now. Here was the unborn jihad, he knew. Here was the race consciousness that he had known once as his own ter...
You’re Doing It Wrong
And he sampled the time-winds, sensing the turmoil, the storm nexus that now focused on this moment place. Even the faint gaps were closed now. Here was the unborn jihad, he knew. Here was the race consciousness that he had known once as his own ter...
I Think I’ve Said This Before
Ho-Fucking-Hum.Let me tell you, Dearest and Most Patient Readers, that notwithstanding my admirable innate modesty, unstudied intellectual humility, and staggeringly handsome physical appearance, it is beyond boring to be proved right time and time aga...
The Blind Men and the Elephant
A HINDOO FABLE.I.IT was six men of IndostanTo learning much inclined,Who went to see the Elephant(Though all of them were blind),That each by observationMight satisfy his mind.II.The First approached the Elephant,And happening to fallAgainst his broad ...
You All Know Brutus and Cassius Are Honorable Men
Much as it pains me to say it, O Gentle Readers of Tender Sensibilities, I'm afraid I must agree for once with those shills for the private plutocracy equity industry over at the Private Equity Growth Capital Council. They recently released a comment ...
Sympathy for the Devil
Please allow me to introduce myselfI'm a man of wealth and tasteI've been around for a long, long yearStole many a man's soul and faith...Pleased to meet youHope you guess my nameBut what's puzzling youIs the nature of my game— The Rolling Stone...
A Good Start
Q: What do you call 10,000 lawyers and 10,000 investment bankers chained together at the bottom of the sea?A: A good start.— (Apologies to) AnonymousNot content with instigating a racial and cultural bar brawl over the only proper way to raise...
Poachers Turned Gamekeepers
As the slow-motion train wreck which was Lehman Brothers unfolds once more before our eyes, if not in the pages of our mainstream media—who continue to proclaim against all available evidence that they really, really do perform a...The Downside of Anger
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
— Cato the Elder
Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
— Lord Halifax
Anyone can become...
