The funny thing: when I used to work in the same office as Taibbi's agent, I told her I was a fan, and he asks her: Is a young, hairy-knuckled young Jew?" She answered in the affirmative. Apparently, most of us are.
@D2theMatthews: Specifically, "great octopus wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
@D2theMatthews: To be fair: that's an octopus and Taibbi is describing a vampire squid. Squids are faster, leaner and more invisible. And vampires are undead, hard to kill and easily disguised.
@skahammer: I know! It had Raspberry Beret, Into the Groove, King of Rock, Running Up That Hill, and fucking La Di Da Di. Fuck you, Rolling Stone listicle from 2004. #america
@snugbug: @Pareene: Thanks. I wasn't specifically asking about the musical preferences of home-schooled junior-high girls wearing acid-washed jeans, but I'm nevertheless glad to add this to the dataset.
@flossy: Good alternate read, except Rolling Stone launched in 1967, so it would follow the mag attained the apex of relevance before it even existed. #america
Goldman is pretty evil though as any reader of #RollingStone knows. Rolling Stone has had excellent and detailed articles regarding #Goldmanstheft over the months - The latest was "Wall Street's Naked Swindle" by Matt Taibbi (I think he wrote most of them) in the October 15th issue. And yes, Rolling Stone has some excellent writers/researchers. #goldmansachs
The "Naked Swindle" article was discredited. For example, his use of the Pension system video made no mention of the rejection processes for those trades and the compliance constraints on writing options positions at institutions. He also materially mis-stated the process and clearinghouse systems for the share-acquisition portion of covering naked positions. Taibbi's sources are clueless kids.
I dispute that as well. The vampire squid is the entity making it all possible, the entity scraping the blood money off the top of each of your paychecks: the Federal Government. There's your bloodsucker; break out the forks and fires for the President and the leering cult of cash burners in Congress. #goldmansachs
@Unsolicited Advice: Ok, I get it. When the gov takes your money, it's bloodsucking. When Goldman does, it's the magic of the marketplace. #goldmansachs
Wouldn't it be a better money-making strategy to put the words on the interweb and make viewers pay for the pictures? Why would anyone pay money to read what Megan Fox has to say?
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Some say that calamari is Italian slang for mafia. Yes? Verifiable?
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The image was also used to denounce Standard Oil back in the day.
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@Adrian Chen: There are even more!
#tips
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Does this have anything to do with this? #america
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@allyzay: At least the olds above justify hyperbole. These young & pathetic "new guitar Gods," not so much.
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The "Naked Swindle" article was discredited. For example, his use of the Pension system video made no mention of the rejection processes for those trades and the compliance constraints on writing options positions at institutions. He also materially mis-stated the process and clearinghouse systems for the share-acquisition portion of covering naked positions. Taibbi's sources are clueless kids.
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#MattTaibbiisanidiot #goldmansachs
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I dispute that as well. The vampire squid is the entity making it all possible, the entity scraping the blood money off the top of each of your paychecks: the Federal Government. There's your bloodsucker; break out the forks and fires for the President and the leering cult of cash burners in Congress. #goldmansachs
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This wouldn't be as conducive to the privacy needs of her teenage fanclub, as an an easily-purchased magazine which could be taken to their rooms.
Give them a taste and they may go for the (s)mile.
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Also, when's the last time she washed that mop?
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