Yes I'm a die-hard White Sox fan and all, but I still think Chicago and Mark Cuban would go together like me and a bear dog. That is, very huggingly well.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
The Kitchen Wars
The stupidity aggregated on this blog aggregator is pretty awesome. Favorite comment on the Cedric Maxwell "get back in the kitchen and fix me some bacon and eggs" scandal is........drum roll please.......it's that deliciously stupid........:
ignorance do come out of (Yes that is the post's actual title. One could not make that up without heavy peyote intake)
Submitted by Anonymous TILL (not verified) on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 10:18am.
ignorance do come out of alot of people. it was ignorant for him to say that but it wasnt racist. Intelligance will get many places but ignorance will get u rite where u deserve. "IN HELL"
ignorance do come out of (Yes that is the post's actual title. One could not make that up without heavy peyote intake)
Submitted by Anonymous TILL (not verified) on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 10:18am.
ignorance do come out of alot of people. it was ignorant for him to say that but it wasnt racist. Intelligance will get many places but ignorance will get u rite where u deserve. "IN HELL"
Nothing is as safe. Nothing is care-free. Except bear dogs.
First Hitchcock had to turn me against birds, now this? Don't tell me killer bear dogs are next.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 27, 2007
At least 11 people died in an annual two-day kite festival in Punjab Province. Officials said two died after their throats were cut by kite strings made of wire, used to damage rival kites. Five died after being hit by celebratory gunshots, and two people were electrocuted trying to untangle kites from overhead power cables. Two others fell from roofs. The police arrested more than 700 people for using sharpened kite strings or firing guns. The authorities had temporarily lifted a ban on kite-flying that was imposed after deaths at last year’s festival.
Published: February 27, 2007
At least 11 people died in an annual two-day kite festival in Punjab Province. Officials said two died after their throats were cut by kite strings made of wire, used to damage rival kites. Five died after being hit by celebratory gunshots, and two people were electrocuted trying to untangle kites from overhead power cables. Two others fell from roofs. The police arrested more than 700 people for using sharpened kite strings or firing guns. The authorities had temporarily lifted a ban on kite-flying that was imposed after deaths at last year’s festival.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Your own Ameritrade hedge fund!
This is getting ridiculous. It has gotten to the point where any shmo with an online trading account can put on his George Soros cape and try to break the Bank of England himself. The ETF craze has run amok.
Your very own carry trade!
Poo-poo or yay-yay the US dollar!
Double long or double short the small/mid/large, growth/value index of your choice!
You can even charge yourself a 20% incentive fee on your own losses!
Your very own carry trade!
Poo-poo or yay-yay the US dollar!
Double long or double short the small/mid/large, growth/value index of your choice!
You can even charge yourself a 20% incentive fee on your own losses!
Thursday, February 22, 2007
This guy is slated to be on an "expert" panel at an upcoming global macro hedge fund conference in NYC. Doesn't he have “responsible steward of your hard-earned capital” written all over him? For all you fellow Hindi speakers out there, how would you most aptly describe him -- a bhenchod, a maderchod, or a chutiya? I've got Bombay gangsters on the brain: awesome book.Check out one of his fellow, slightly more representative panel experts below. They're gonna get along great!
Look-a-likes make the world go round
Ladies and gentlemen, Phil effin Jackson at our hotel pool. He was omnipresent the whole time we were there, but I couldn't find it in my heart to take a picture of his mug up close.
So you're telling me the biggest news we missed in Mexico was some slut-box shaving her head? Hellooooo, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates but signalled no further increases for the next 6 months, causing the yen to trade down vs. the euro and dollar. The BOJ would be a great band name no?
Friday, February 16, 2007
Behave Yourself
At my job we outsource background checks on hedge fund managers we might invest in, just to make sure they don't like to steal money for fun or travel under pseudonyms to exotic locales (even though that IS fun, just not in the interest of your exorbitant-fee-paying shareholders). And from this, the lesson of the day: people can dig up ANYTHING. So next time you decide to pee on something in the urban outdoors, just picture yourself 15 years later explaining said urine incident to your potential employer/investor.
NAME OF COURT: Cook County Circuit Court
CASE NAME: State of Illinois v. Mr. X
DESCRIPTION/STATUS: Mr. X was charged in this misdemeanor offense with
“knowingly” damaging property of a “Flash Taco” located at 1570 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, Ill.,
by “breaking a door with such force as to break the door jam in the men’s room.” Note that the
arrest report indicates that the damage caused was less than $300, and that Mr. X paid a
bond of $1,000 on ___ 19, 2009.
He was probably so drunk he didn't realize which taco joint he had entered. Upon realizing it was a late night in Chicago and he was in fact not at a Taco Burrito King (with recent website revision!), necessary door breaking ensued.
NAME OF COURT: Cook County Circuit Court
CASE NAME: State of Illinois v. Mr. X
DESCRIPTION/STATUS: Mr. X was charged in this misdemeanor offense with
“knowingly” damaging property of a “Flash Taco” located at 1570 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, Ill.,
by “breaking a door with such force as to break the door jam in the men’s room.” Note that the
arrest report indicates that the damage caused was less than $300, and that Mr. X paid a
bond of $1,000 on ___ 19, 2009.
He was probably so drunk he didn't realize which taco joint he had entered. Upon realizing it was a late night in Chicago and he was in fact not at a Taco Burrito King (with recent website revision!), necessary door breaking ensued.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Gay Superstar?
Mark Cuban believes that the first homosexual male pro athlete to come out while still playing will become a Super Gay Brand unto themselves, and reap gazillions of dollars. Don't know if I buy that. John Amaechi, the man in the middle himself, pointed out that Martina Navratilova lost every endorsement she had when she came out in her (late) prime. Cuban mentions Jackie Robinson as a semi-equivalent but I don't see any record of Jackie doing Ford truck ads in the 50's.
It's anyone's guess how the first publicly gay pro would be received. But, I'm just throwing names out here, what if it was some uber-respected star like Grant Hill? People would diss Grant Hill? Now if it was just a regular shmo player I think a big part of the league would shun him, the daily (minute-ly?) pressure would mount and he'd be out of the league within a year. So can't Grant Hill just pretend he's gay, have everybody be ok with it, pave the way for others, and then get back to doin his heterosexual thing? Come on Grant, take one for the teams!
"From a marketing perspective, if you're a player who happens to be gay and you want to be incredibly rich, then you should come out, because it would be the best thing that ever happened to you from a marketing and an endorsement perspective," Cuban told the newspaper. "You would be an absolute hero to more Americans than you can ever possibly be as an athlete, and that'll put money in your pocket."
Maybe.
But Cuban's definitely right on his flip side, as we witness Tim "get that" Hard(thing)away "from me" killer crossover his reputation into John Rocker oblivion today.
Cuban: "On the flip side, if you're the idiot who condemns somebody because they're gay, then you're going to be ostracized, you're going to be picketed and you're going to ruin whatever marketing endorsements you have."
Yes.
It's anyone's guess how the first publicly gay pro would be received. But, I'm just throwing names out here, what if it was some uber-respected star like Grant Hill? People would diss Grant Hill? Now if it was just a regular shmo player I think a big part of the league would shun him, the daily (minute-ly?) pressure would mount and he'd be out of the league within a year. So can't Grant Hill just pretend he's gay, have everybody be ok with it, pave the way for others, and then get back to doin his heterosexual thing? Come on Grant, take one for the teams!
"From a marketing perspective, if you're a player who happens to be gay and you want to be incredibly rich, then you should come out, because it would be the best thing that ever happened to you from a marketing and an endorsement perspective," Cuban told the newspaper. "You would be an absolute hero to more Americans than you can ever possibly be as an athlete, and that'll put money in your pocket."
Maybe.
But Cuban's definitely right on his flip side, as we witness Tim "get that" Hard(thing)away "from me" killer crossover his reputation into John Rocker oblivion today.
Cuban: "On the flip side, if you're the idiot who condemns somebody because they're gay, then you're going to be ostracized, you're going to be picketed and you're going to ruin whatever marketing endorsements you have."
Yes.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
I is he and he is me
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