Oct. 20th, 2008

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My friend Andrew sent me this article FT.com / In depth - Letter: Andrew Lahde, Lahde Capital Management. Andrew’s a manhattan business consultant. Not that that matters much, but have a look at that article and this talking about who and what this person was and did.
FT.com / Companies / Financial services - Hedge fund manager slams ‘idiot’ bankers

Some of these quotes from the article are interesting in terms of education, reminding us that we’ve not only dumbed down education, but dumbed it up, and it is possible for people to get ahead in life, particularly in politics, without having much in the way of a meaningful liberal arts education. That people will vote as they do, and actively eschew intelligence in the society is telling. Reminds me of the story The Marching Morons by one of my favourite writers, C.M. Kornbluth. And that someone told me that Temple Grandin said that while everyone was out dancing, an Aspie (someone with Aspergers Syndrome) was inventing the wheel.

I was in this game for the money. The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supporting the Aristocracy only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America.

Give up on leaving your mark. Throw the Blackberry away and enjoy life.

Our policies have other countries literally laughing at our stupidity, most notably Canada, as well as several European nations (both Eastern and Western). You would not know this by paying attention to U.S. media sources though, as they tend not to elaborate on who is laughing at the United States this week.

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Rochelle demanded that I sing to mr pants while holding him in front of a camera. And I have.

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