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Warning: Don’t watch HBO’s John Adams on a full stomach

I’ve watched the first three parts of HBO’s John Adams miniseries. and so far I’ve seen a naked dude tarred and feathered, another dude whose entire body is devoured by smallpox sores, puking, blood letting, dementia, another dude having his leg sawed off without anesthetic, and Ben Franklin bathing with a really heinous old French Chick. …

21: Vegas never really loses

I was just extremely entertained to notice that Las Vegas is actually helping to promote the new movie 21, which dramatizes the MIT Card Counting Team’s time in their Casinos. It’s like they are saying, “Go ahead and try to cheat. Either you’ll be bad at it or we’ll bust your kneecaps. Either way, we know you’re …

Backpeddle Jim Cramer, Backpeddle!

Personally, I think almost all stock prognosticators are full of it. I’ve enjoyed Jim Cramer and he certainly sounds like he knows what he’s talking about. Ask him about some company with four employees making ankle bracelets in Hawaii, and he’s tell you that he just toured their plant last week and had lunch with …

Another glimpse at Witness

“You’re making a mistake.” One of my favorite movie scenes and maybe one of the most misinterpreted of all time. Harrison Ford, a cop hiding out among the Amish, has just found out that his partner has been killed by a cadre of corruption within his department, comes upon a group of rednecks, who had …

Least Frivolous Lawsuit Ever

A 21-year-old Harris County woman filed a $200,000 lawsuit against American Airlines alleging employees on a flight to Los Angeles from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport failed to protect her while she slept from another passenger who masturbated to her and ejaculated in her hair, according to a lawsuit she filed last week in Tarrant County. $200,000? …

Bear Stearns defines “Liquidity Problem”

JPM: “Hi this is JP Morgan” BSC: “Hi, this is Bear Stearns. We have some ugly positions that we’d like to get out of. Could you give us a market, because um they are really big and no one else can really service us.” JPM: “No problem. How about this, you give us your firm.” …

What a difference a day makes at Bear Stearns

Yesterday: Bear Stearns President and Chief Executive Alan Schwartz begged to differ with Wall Street. “There is absolutely no truth to the rumors of liquidity problems.” Today: “Bear Stearns has been the subject of a multitude of market rumors regarding our liquidity,” Bear Stearns president and chief executive, Alan Schwartz, said in a statement. “Amidst …