If you can't spot the patsy at the table.....

"The banksters hold the marked cards, the politicians are the dealer, and the taxpayers are the patsy in this game."


--BC

Sound advice

"The first rule is that unicorns are tricky bitches and often fake death just to lure you within impaling range. To avoid this common and undesirable hunter's fate, pump a couple of rounds into your unicorn's torso (just don't hit the horn!)."


--"Lowbeyond"

On Accountability

This view is widely ignored by economists -- almost all of whom were unable to see the bubble. Track records do not count for much in economics.

--Dean Baker

Financial Crisis

“The resources of nature and men’s devices are just as fertile and productive as they were. The rate of our progress towards solving the material problems of life is not less rapid. We are as capable as before of affording for everyone a high standard of life. ... But today we have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand.”

- John Maynard Keynes

(On the Great Depression)

A thesis in moral philosophy

"It sounds like something you'd read on a movie poster: sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have to hold on to. If you're really desperate, you might need to grope, saying, for example, 'I've never killed anyone with a hammer' or 'I've never stolen from anyone who didn't deserve it.... [But] I can glimpse at what my life would be like without my [sexual fidelity], of how lost I'd feel without this scrap of integrity, and the fear is enough to wake me up."

--David Sedaris

Heart

It is essential to understand that battles are
primarily won in the hearts of men.

- Vince Lombardi

American Capitalism and the Glory of the "Free Market" in The Age of Bank Bailouts.

"I think here of a [laid-off worker] I had the other day: he has cancer. So the loss of his job means the loss of his health insurance, and the loss of his job, at age 61, really could be a death sentence. It’s a long trek from age 61 to Medicare."

--Thomas Geoghegan

It's true, the internet cant do that.

"Times sure have changed. I remember the good ol' days when you guys had to hide all of your sticky porn mags in secret places, fearing that someone would discover them. Now it's all just a bunch of 1s and 0s on your hard drive, or floating somewhere in cyber space.

Now if someone walks in on you, your porn can vanish instantly with the click of a button . It's too bad you still haven't figured out a way to yank your pants up that fast yet. ;-)"

--SheilaNoya