The subprime crisis in a nutshell. Read it while trying to get this out of your head:
Suckers.
Karaoke Kills
This is just bizarre:
A gunman in Thailand shot-dead eight neighbours, including his brother-in-law, after tiring of their karaoke versions of popular songs, including John Denver’s Country Roads.
Weenus Chumkamnerd, 52, put his gun to the head of a respected female doctor and seven of her guests as they partied at her home in Songkhla Province, South Thailand.
“When I began shooting nobody pleaded for his life because they were all drunk,” he said after his arrest.
advertisementHe said he was so furious with their awful singing that he did not notice he had murdered his own brother-in-law.
“I warned these people about their noisy karaoke parties. I said if they carried on I would go down and shoot them. I had told them if I couldn’t talk sense into them I would come back and finish them off,” he added.
I hope this guy never comes to Morgantown in the fall.
Is Irony the Right Word?
Lawmakers are grilling bank CEOs today:
In his opening remarks, Henry Waxman, the Democratic Congressman who chairs the committee, said the purpose of Friday’s hearing is to determine whether lofty compensation is justified when companies fail to perform.
Nothing too important here. I just think it’s funny when politicians have the audacity to criticize others for being well paid and failing to perform.
Free For All Open Thread
Eyes on the prize, guys. Play nice.
Tagged
Quick, look around and grab the closest book to where you’re sitting. No scooting over to that unopened copy of Whitehead’s Function of Reason, cheater, just grab what’s nearby. Willing to say what it is?
Tom Levenson just tagged me with the “123” meme so it looks like I have no choice. My mission, should I choose to accept it:
* look up page 123 in the nearest book
* look for the fifth sentence
* then post the three sentences that follow that fifth sentence on page 123.
Tom appears to have put off answering until he could get closer to his copy of On The Origin of Species. Hmm. We’ll have to run that past the rules committee.
As for me, I’m still sitting right where I was when Tom tagged me at 3:00, so let’s see…uh oh. Right next to my MacBook is Strunk and White’s Elements of Style, fourth edition in paperback. What do you think is the likelihood that I will find three consecutive rules that I respect all the way through an average day of blogging? Me think odds not good. Lucky for me my copy ends at page 105.
Next closest is Les Âmes Grises by Philippe Claudel. I hope you speak French.
En définitive, Matziev, même si je l’ai connu quand il a tourné ordure, valait bien mieux que lui. Au moins, une fois dans sa vie, il n’a pas fait honte a sa qualité d’homme. Qui peut en dire autant?
For those who don’t speak romance languages like you should, I took advantage of AltaVista’s free online tool to translate the passage from French to German to English. Enjoy.
Finally, Matziev, even if I knew it, if it turned waste, were worth very better than it. At least once in its life RK it dishonor quality has its man quality. Who can say of it just as much?
Postmodern!
As for who to tag next, it’s a tough call; bloggers as a whole tend to be literate people with interesting perspectives. For various reasons I pick Fester, PZ Meyers and Jim Henley.
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Bride Of Song Pong
What is art? Why do we exist?
Open thread.
Song Pong Thread
Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame, but I know.
It’s The Other Steve‘s Fault.