A Certain Moral Flexibility
Marty: “When I left, I joined the Army, and when I took the service exam, my psych profile fit a certain... ‘moral flexibility’ would be the only way to describe it. I was loaned out to a CIA-sponsored program, and we sort of found ...
All’s Fair…
“Musashi!”
No answer.
“Musashi!”
The sea rumbled ominously in the distance; the tide lapped and murmured at the two men’s feet.
“You’re late again, aren’t you? Is that your strategy? As far as I&rsq...
The Root of Some Evil
“It has always seemed strange to me,” said Doc. “The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness,...
In the Nation’s Service
“They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and—you know—they’ve all made themselves a part of something, and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? ‘I killed the President of Para...
Miss Lonely Hearts
From time to time, O Dearly Beloved, your Faithful Correspondent receives a letter in the electronic mailbag which he decides is worthy of more general airing in these pages than a simple direct reply.Today’s specimen wends its way to the Volcano...
Miss Lonely Hearts
From time to time, O Dearly Beloved, your Faithful Correspondent receives a letter in the electronic mailbag which he decides is worthy of more general airing in these pages than a simple direct reply.Today’s specimen wends its way to the Volcano...
If the Phone Don’t Ring, You’ll Know It’s Me
As a dashing, handsome, witty, and debonair man-about-town, you might well imagine, Dear Readers, that I receive copious quantities of correspondence begging a minute of my precious time to address some issue or other. Often, it is some tyro who has r...
A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
“Have you ever stood and stared at it? Marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives. Oblivious.“Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered, where ev...
Investment Banks of the Plain
Awww...
Passion aficionado and sesquibajillionaire Ken Griffin has finally “given up his dream”—according to a slightly breathless New York Times DealBook—to create an investment bank with the heft and prestige of Goldman Sach...
Top Ten Things I Have Heard in an Investment Bank Elevator
1) "Good morning."
2) "Good night."
3) "How's it going?"
4) "How's the family?"
5) "Going anywhere this summer/weekend/over the holidays?"
6) "Call me when you get a chance."
7) [indifferent silence]
8) [awkward silence]
9) [smiling silence]
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School for Scandal
"Give up, just quit, because in this life, you can't win. Yeah, you can try, but in the end you're just gonna lose, big time, because the world is run by the Man. The Man... Oh, you don't know the Man? He's everywhere. In the White House... down the ha...
