An Immodest Proposal

Having spent many a night thinking at the level of sheer stupidity and irresponsibility in actors creating, buying, and selling financial instruments a dramatic action must be undertaken to prevent the creation of the next collateralized debt obligation which will enrich a select few individuals before damning the population at large dependent on a stable economy for goods, services, and employment. The current economic crisis was not unavoidable, and could have been prevented if someone in a position to do something would have listened to the arguments against allowing the creation and trade in some of the horrible bastardized securities that imploded bringing down the rest of the financial markets, including the reduction of Iceland from a global financial powerhouse to competing with developing nations for relief from the International Monetary Fund.

It is my proposal that the SEC ought to create a division staffed by professional epistemologists to investigate novel and potentially bunk financial instruments, and that there should be a position held b a financial epistemologist that reports to the President and Congress on proposed changes to trading regulations. Our current economic crisis is rooted in poor treatment of information.
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7 reasons to sleep in

There are numerous health benefits associated with sleep, and on your day off here are some reasons that together can build a case for a few extra hours of shut eye instead of tackling that job around the yard you are just going to have to do again anyway.

7.  Sleep improves concentration:  If you have to turn that big pile of limbs in the yard into a neat stack of firewood, a little concentration go go a long way towards protecting your own limbs as you operate a chainsaw.

6.  Sleep isn’t mere rest:  When you sleep, your body is having a celebration not unlike an old fashioned barn raising where all these tasks it can’t accomplish while its busy being awake get done.
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Starbucks now makes instant coffee

I haven’t tried this product and doubt I will. I am a firm believer that instant coffee ought to be intentionally second rate to punish people like myself for either being lazy or earning incomes too far below the poverty line to enjoy the real deal. I am ashamed that a company like Starbucks would stoop so low as to target my demographic.

http://www.starbucks.com/coffee/p97c30-italian-roast.aspx

Starbucks can be seen now to be fading like other things that seemed so hip last century but ended up gradually cheapening themselves to obscurity this century. Things like all-in-one desktop Macs (I don’t see them anywhere so they must not be as popular as the notebooks, I would so get a Mac though if they brought back the form used in the Mac SE, nine inch screen, but updated for today’s demanding uses for a nine inch desktop screen), direct mail marketing, land line phones, manned space flight, and newsworthy intrigue in Central American politics.