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more about #hero more comments → BookishLookish: Eat Your Makeup #news more » Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: Crowley as in Crowley Maritime? #news more » homoviper: Earth 2.0 = Earth + Plastic (I think it was George Carlin who said we're stupid for worrying about it and Earth will figure out a way to integrate pla... more » Notes from the underwhelmed: What the world needs now is a giant Brita filter. #news more » markscottmusic: The oceans also used to be teeming with life. So we're over fishing to the point where there are huge swaths where you can't find any life AND dumpin... more » SwapnasundariFazoo: True facts, I'm an oceanography graduate student who has been to the North Pacific Gyre on research cruises three times in the last three years. We al... more » GuyBitchy: And now, via The Treasury and Federal Reserve, those very same folks are in charge of the country--completely. Yes, the individuals who created the di... more » MrInBetween: Financial illiterates at the SEC! Intelligence illiterates at the CIA! Disaster illiterates at FEMA! Wow, the Bush administration really was one for t... more » ifstone: Here's Markopolos's 2005 letter to the SEC, which is amazing reading: [online.wsj.com] The gist is that it wasn't hard at all to see that Madoff was e... more » smithhimself: Dr. Smithhimself is in... As much as I respect this man, I find his physical mannerism even more fascinating. Functional Asperger syndrome more » bluebears: What exactly does "working" for the SEC entail these days? inter-office tickle fight tournaments? more » Kid Twist: The Markopolos Case. This guy has been around a loooong time. more » saythatscool: Marko? more » caligulash: It is utterly unfunny how many people don't get it that lynching is not the same as fair trial. What else can better explain the Wild West style lawle... more » MrInBetween: Poor, lame Blago. He has confused his defense strategy with the plot of a Cormac McCarthy novel. more » -
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Cleaning Lady Hints at Plastic Diet
Mary Crowley loves to sail. But a few years ago, she discovered a problem. A problem fondly called The Great Garbage Patch. More » -
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NYC Evildoers Still Falling for FBI's Hezbollah Trick
Chicago thinks it's so fancy with its cartoon-hating Youtube terrorists. Pfft. New Yorkers don't have time for penny ante stuff like that. Nothing less than providing arms to Hezbollah will do for us! More » -
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Harry Markopolos Rips SEC for Missing Madoff Warnings
At last, everyone is hearing Cassandra out. The doomed prophet has taken modern shape in Harry Markopolos, the Boston accountant who blew the whistle on Bernie Madoff. The SEC ignored him. Now Congress listens. More » -
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Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Blago
Here's what you saw if you were watching Rod Blagojevich's press conference on one of the channels where they weren't interrupting him. It's an amazing defense of... cattle rustling? More » -
