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Just Like Tom Wolfe's Blues

Maulleigh — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:36:27 EDT

Only the parts with Croker were good in that book. The rest of it could be skipped.

Maulleigh

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famousauthor — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:12:32 EDT

People on the verge of a spiritual awakening are always interesting. They can go either way: heaven or hell.

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BettyCrocker — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:14:05 EDT

"It's one thing to spark up a doobie and get shitfaced at offsite meetings, but it's quite another to be fried all day."

BettyCrocker

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MomsFavorite — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:59:30 EDT

Jimmy was freestylin' the chronic when he should've been watching his investments. Happens to us all. He was overhead describing his share sales as "scraping the bowl" for that last bit of Bear Stearns resin.

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dado — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:21:59 EDT

I'm torn when it comes to this guy. Obnoxious caricature of Wall Street excess, but smokes the kind and hangs in Jersey instead of the Hamptons. Kind of like Marge's portrait of Monty Burns, he's bad, but he'll die soon. That sorta thing.

dado

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donmiguel — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:26:20 EDT

W.T.F.? Thanks G-d the money only matters here, not hereafter...I mean, if there is a hereafter and all that.

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Hythloday — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:14:08 EDT

That bit with the golden calf comes to mind.

Hythloday

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Hamud Ibn Hamud — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:07:20 EDT

"And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all." Luke 17:26-30

In what we call the Judeo-Christian tradition, there's always been the lurking caution that whatever the Lord giveth, He can sure as hell taketh away whenever He feels like it.

In the U.S., where Calvinism defined wealth as an infallible sign of Election, a poor schmuck like Cayne can't but interpret the implosion of Bear Stearns as a direct message from God.

Of course the folks who were never wealthy in the first place, who never had the time or inclination to dabble in the implications of Calvinist theology, who are losing their homes and businesses because their variable-rate mortgages have launched into the stratosphere, don't have the luxury of discerning their difficulty as a kind of special-delivery pronouncement from the Creator.

Maybe now Cayne will stand better than a camel's chance of passing through the eye of a needle.

Hamud Ibn Hamud