MsGuy

Or better yet, picture... Has your Mom tried fixing you up with any of the spinster ladies at her church yet?

And it was Curio who said of Ceasar, "He was every woman's man and every man's woman." Those Romans liked their humor pungent. (courtesy of Suetonius)

ahahahahahahaha...lookin, you've been hitting that medicinal marijuana a bit too often.

It's a trick. The cat just picks the center shell every time.

Not me, not even if the funicular car is equiped with oxygen bottles.

Caeron, I agree that folks that aren't fluent in math are fooling themselves if they think they can understand this stuff. At best we English speakers can latch onto some verbal analogies that the math guys assure us (with a wink and a nod among themselves) convey the general concepts. I'm told that, aside from resolving a number of knotty problems in the standard model of physics, string theory is favored by math types for its elegance. Apparently pretty is as important in mathematics as it is in escorting. I'm also told that the main criticism of string theory lies in its failure after 40 years of work to provide any testable predictions that would allow it to be falsified. As I understand it, damn near any result from a test would be allowed by jiggling the parameters of the theories. Me, I think it's all scorcery. When you get down to it, the reason we believe any of this crazy shit is true is that the high priests of physics are demonstrably better at working miracles than their competition. With their nukes and their cell phones, they overawe us all into thinking they must have the inside track to truth.

Who is in a better position to assess the risk of big Betchel project than Betchel itself? Surely any underwriting team at an insurer would be asking themselves, "Just what hidden risk is Betchel trying to unload on us?" and price their policy accordingly. Banks the size of Morgan get a hidden subsidy in the form of lower cost of capital from the market's recognition that they are backstopped by the treasury. Seems to me that subsidy is a pretty good approximation of the risk the market thinks is being shifted to the taxpayers. So why not either prohibit these banks from playing the casino game or require them to pay that subsidy into an insurance fund. Let's see if Morgan is willing to cough up that five billion bucks a year subsidy (1/4 of one % of assets) to play the game. The problem with the activities Dimon wants to engage in is that it's basically an "I'm the smartest boy in the room" strategy. Necessarily only one of the boys will prove correct in his self-assessment..

I found this short article a useful outline of what Morgan has been up to in London. http://www.latimes.c...0,6700867.story The underlying problem is one of moral hazard. Folks at the top of of these institutions get paid enormous rewards for successful gambles with other peoples money with no corresponding personal downside if things turn ugly. Hito has a point. If Dimon really thinks this is good practice for his bank, require him to personally guarantee the losses.

I thought we agreed on no toys.

It was all his doing, Hito. I just smiled, made some sympathetic noises, did a little hand holding and let things develop.

Gay boys don't play the bully? I recall an incident at Ole Miss where a friend of mine went into a wild rant about gays and I had to restrain a straight friend from leaping into it to defend my honor. Problem was I knew perfectly well friend #1 was struggling with some just barely repressed homo urges and the situation required a delicate touch. Fortunately my first friend and I were later able to resolve matters with several mutually satisfactory adventures in bed. (turned out he made a cute and voracious bottom)

My grandfather and his 1st cousin (they were close as brothers and lived next door to each other all their lives) married sisters. I grew up calling the cousin Uncle X and thought he was Granddad's brother until I was a teenager. Does that count? LOL, city folks just don't understand how few possible mates there were to be found in small rural communities before the advent of the automobile. You just settled for what was available. Mostly it didn't work out so very bad.

Tell us the truth, AS...how many 1st cousin marriages in your extended family?

Surprised the shit out of me. Good for him!

Shhhhh, Hito! Don't out them. They're all closet cases with secret identities.

And they just dumped Dick Lugar without so much much as a goodbye 'Kiss My Ass.' Nominating Indiana state treasurer Mourdock, a local teabag favorite, had to be the only conceivable way to put a red state Senate seat in play in November. I thought guys like Lugar were supposed to die in office. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-tea-party-upstart-richard-mourdock-defeats-longtime-indiana-sen-lugar-20120508,0,7931361.story

Hahahahaha Townie, are there any more of these hidden away on some obscure web site?

LOL, maybe Travolta was researching his upcoming role as an aging star seeking a LTR with young Gay For Pay?

Expat, have they finished auditioning for clients for the gay for pay segments? If not, how much do the roles pay? Curious minds want to know!

LOL, I was gonna suggest OCD was mixing his meds again but your take is better!

well said...

Thank you for your confidence in me, Hito, but I think I would settle for winning Oz's posting contest.

Out of office pols like to preen in the spotlight, thump their chest and brag how tough they are. Sometimes they sober up once faced with the responsibility of actual command. For instance, I would hope that Romney is as duplicitous about his intent to attack Iran as he is about the rest of his platform. One could hope he is just as duplicitous about his Israeli policy, but that might be asking a little too much.

LOL, I picture dozens of operatives fanning out from the White House shouting to all, near and far, "GET THE FUCK BACK ON MESSAGE!"

The underlying problem is that there is exists no bright, clear line between abortion and infanticide. People formulate all kinds of verbal receipes to avoid dealing with that fact but whatever line you choose to draw dissolves upon close inpection. The hard fact is that there is no natural or scientific difference between the two. Factually abortion = infanticide. Fortunately, there may be a social line: It's whatever a sufficient majority of the population finds tolerable, sufficient meaning large enough to reduce dissenters to the political fringes. ---- My real intent in replying to your post was to get you to look at what your post might look like to someone coming from a different point on the abortion spectrum. I don't think it advances the construction of that social line (whatever it may be) to attack others as fucktard, hypocritical idiots. Just saying...