(To assist digestion and napping after Easter Dinner) I’ve got a corner office In the far-famed Tower of Babel, A soft chair in the board room, To gas, and grease, and gabble; And to this dish my title adds A toothsome dash of spice: The nameplate on my door Proclaims Vice President for Vice. The […]
A Boasting Bureaucrat of Babel — The Orthosphere
Christ is risen!
Happy Easter!
Wheels within wheels?
It seems like de-bunking a crazy conspiracy theory should leave the reader thinking it’s nonsense, not plausible.
From 4chan to international politics, a bug-eating conspiracy theory goes mainstream
The Fed’s reverse-repo facility
Illustrates a more general point:
“The scheme was a seemingly innocuous change to the financial system’s plumbing that may, just under a decade later, be having a profoundly destabilising impact on banks.”
Merry Christmas!
Voted
This year the polling place was a church. It was full. The atmosphere was festive, with everybody laughing and talking. There was no electronic voting, but only Scantron-type paper ballots to be marked with provided ballpoint pens.
For All the Saints
There are more verses of “For All the Saints.”
Happy Columbus Day!
Today is the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America on October 12th 1492.
Michaelmas
It’s today! Have a good one.
Math quiz
Inflation soars to an over 40-year high. These are the ways Americans are coping:
Clay Watkins loves LaCroix brand sparkling water — especially the watermelon flavor.
So the suburban Chicago school teacher was excited when he spotted it on sale at his local grocery store: two packages for $8.
“I went to grab the package and I was like, ‘Wait a second,'” Watkins recalls.
He was surprised to find a package that once held 12 cans of sparkling water had been downsized to 8 — with no change in price — a common practice known as “shrinkflation.”
“I’m not a mathematician,” he says. “I teach science. But I think that’s a 33% price increase.”
What do you think?
Monday Evening 