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Keen observation: “I don’t know if anyone’s noticed, but George W. Bush is being disappeared from the presidential campaign and everyone’s running against incumbent Hillary Clinton.”

Michael Clayton is a great movie – perhaps, what Wall Street should have been. If only the bad guys had been a hedge fund. A beer chaser: the modest but tense Boiler Room.

What’s the opposite of schadenfreude? I feel that right now for Gordon Ramsay. His show, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, is like a television Tampopo: brilliantly concocted, edifying, romantic.

I would pay $150 – $200 for a scarf that looks like this:

The Queen. A very pretty made-for-television “dramedy.” A half-dozen caricatures in conversation with one or two half-drawn characters. A sly argument for the primacy of emotions in history – with which I disagree. Culture shapes even our unconscious just as language is the “skin and bones” of philosophy. Had The Queen emphasized persuasion over intuition, [...]