TRP-related (by me at least)..from a review

[Joseph Tracy]

Apparently Pushkin never had a child who picked up a bright yellow  
cluster bomb. An unfortunate little gnat's anus.
On Mar 24, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

>  rich wrote:
>> meant to say "not necessarily a bad thing'. sorry
>>
>
> you had it right the first time!
>
>  rich wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't think the idea  that public companies can find ways to raise
>>> capital such as issuing shares is necessarily a bad thing.
>
> see?
>
>
>> Proper oversight
>>> and regulation is what is needed
>>
>
> ah, but who will bell the cat?
>
>
>>> as much as anarchism is very attractive, all it really amounts to a
>>> diversion for children with nothing to lose no matter how Pynchon  
>>> exalts
>>> them.
>
> people say that about religion too, but some very smart people
> have led very productive lives under both those aegises (aegae?   
> Aegeans?)
>
> it's whatcha make of it that counts...
>
> was it Pushkin who said of religion and politics, that they don't
> comprise a gnat's anus between them?  and of philosophy,
> that it was even less substantial?
>
>
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>>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Mark Kohut  
>>> <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     The Big Short by Michael Lewis is "an indictment of shareholder
>>>> driven capitalism". As soon as partnership was replaced by  
>>>> investor money,
>>>> it became a casino.
>>>>
>>>> I would argue that one of the meanings of the casino (and Vegas  
>>>> in IV?)
>>>> in AtD is captured in the above....Pynchon satirizes society for  
>>>> losing its
>>>> human scale most.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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> -- 
> -- "the problem with the deployment of frictionless surfaces is
> that they're not getting traction."