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Oh dear...	[May. 17th, 2012\|01:16 pm]
South Africa goes the way of, well, Africa.
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Thought of the day?	[May. 14th, 2012\|11:40 am]
The threat Black Studies faces today is the same that many disciplines in the humanities face. The combination of mediocrity and group think on the inside of the profession combined with an age of tight budgets will force all the humanities and social sciences to defend their programs and their subsidies before a skeptical public. It will do no good for the professoriate to get all huffy and denounce the skeptics as barbarians, bigots and know-nothings. Insulting your patrons is no way to get them to cover your costs. More here... The difference between Economics and the humanities? Remedial calculus.
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I had that conversation with you, K, and then saw this.	[May. 14th, 2012\|01:01 am]
The entire London staff of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)’s chief investment office is at risk of dismissal as a $2 billion trading loss prompts the first executive departures as soon as this week, a person familiar with the situation said. Increasingly.. it looks like the Brits are the problem child.
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You owe me for this...	[May. 12th, 2012\|01:44 pm]
Germans and their Chinese allies... well, back then they called themselves the Japanese...
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Saw Dark Shadows...	[May. 12th, 2012\|12:23 am]
The worse thing about it... there was the germ of a really good movie in there.
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It's not that India is fcked, it's just that India is fcked...	[May. 10th, 2012\|06:31 pm]
On Thursday the RBI said exporters will have to sell half the foreign currency in their accounts in an attempt to strengthen the rupee after it ended the previous day at a record low against the dollar. The new regulation will require sales of about $2.5 billion in foreign exchange. Argentina did something similar a few months ago.
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Oh god, we're doomed.	[May. 10th, 2012\|05:57 pm]
Article on Greece from the reliably leftist Foreign Policy site. Some gems... Greek police attribute about 60 percent of the city center's crime to illegal immigrants, many of whom are trying to pay off the traffickers who brought them in. They're trying to pay off their smugglers? I'm sure that excuses the crime then. It didn't seem to matter that many of these same voters lived through the horrific Nazi occupation of World War II, which killed tens of thousands of Greeks. The night of the election, a taxi driver in his 60s actually told me that "World War II was a long time ago and these are different Nazis." In related news, the germans vote en masse for social democrats, despite social democrats killing millions of germans in WWII... One of those bodyguards, Giorgos Germenis, wears fake blood and spiked bracelets and wields knives as the bassist of a death-metal band. He's now a new member of Parliament representing Athens. Coolest. Election. Ever.
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....	[May. 10th, 2012\|11:06 am]
"I thought there were a billion screaming chinamen." "There were." Russia sent their latest Sukhoi commercial offering to Indonesia to drum up some business. As usual, communists are masters at marketing.
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Oh lord...	[May. 9th, 2012\|10:46 am]
It turns out that someone ran against Obama in the democratic primary in West Virginia. Ex-governor now senator Joe Manchin refuses to say who he voted for.
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I want a rant from K on the stupidity of this	[May. 8th, 2012\|04:07 pm]
This is often portrayed as a contrast between a hard-working, Protestant, disciplined northern Europe (Germany, Holland, and Scandinavia) against a lazy, profligate Catholic-Orthodox south. But the real division is not a cultural one; it is between a clientelistic and non-clientelistic Europe.
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