Boy, that sure was some crisis
Wall Street banks in $70bn staff payout
Pay and bonus deals equivalent to 10% of US government bail-out package
Imagine if we had not had the bailout bill! The Wall Street types who shit the worldwide bed might have missed their outlandish compensation! One shudders to think.
But we’re safe now; at least until their bonuses come due next year, when we’ll have to have another emergency to make sure they get paid.
Tucker Carlson is an evil man, but not the stupid one he plays on his TV show. His feigned ignorance is all choreographed, right down to his patented blowfish-like open mouthed, furrowed-brow, Alfred E. Neuman (see under Mad Magazine), deer-in the headlights gaze. 1/
Reminder:
In college, Tucker Carlson was a member of a club named after Harvey Milk's assassin. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tucker-carlson-dan-white-society/
There is a deep lesson here. Policing in the USA is deeply, profoundly fucked up. That doesn't that (in the words of Sympathy for the Devil) every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners are saints. But #thinblueline culture is real & entrenched & a grave danger to us all.
@equalityAlec There are lots of unlearning stations. I observed a class on de-escalation usually taught to police cadets; learned that cadets are nearly as likely to propose de-escalating as I am, but their superiors talk them out of having human reactions. That broke my heart a bit.
This Kiké Hernández run is already epic. It's like watching Larry Bird at his prime when he would drop 20, 30, 40 points per night, whatever he was in the mood to drop. @bijancbayne
Alex Verdugo rocking the baby. There are some things that baseball on TV does actually do better than baseball on radio.
How to tell if you're in a Sundman novel:
You are in a maze of twisty passages, each one different.
The walls are made of biological & digital technologies, angst, sex, memories of Africa, ethical conundrums. There is a scary meta-monster. Also, Jesus.
You are in a twisty maze.
From the referenced article in The Guardian:
“At one point last week the Morgan Stanley $10.7bn pay pot for the year to date was greater than the entire stock market value of the business. In effect, staff, on receiving their remuneration, could club together and buy the bank.”