Max Keiser Flames Goldman Sachs Into Oblivion
Former BBC Commentator and financial analyst, Max Keiser, takes Goldman to the woodshed in this Crossfire-style show…
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Jon Stewart Mourns Fate of Lenny Dykstra
This week, Mets apologist and former Dykstra fanatic, Jon Stewart, recapped the gutty, gritty, former outfielder’s fall from grace. Not only is this once revered player an admitted steroid user, he is now known as a financial scam-artist after trying to pass himself off as an investment guru.
The only thing left is to try for the infamy hat trick, with a cameo appearance on To Catch a Predator.
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Jon’s Illegitimate Son!
The MEP Report is first to report on this exclusive. Sources have discovered that Jon, of Jon and Kate plus 8, has an illegitimate son. Most news reports have covered Jon’s affair, and others have picked up on his new girlfriend (way to waste no time at all, Jon…). However, MEP report contacts have informed us that the affair was not just a one night stand! “I could have handled that,” said Kate to a friend, “a simple affair would have been fine…but when I heard he had another child, making his total nine to my eight…I just couldn’t stand for that.”
MEP Report photographers have acquired this exclusive photo.
Troubled Assets as Delicious Gravy
Fun little tutorial on the progress of the TARP program by NPR’s Marketplace Senior Editor, Paddy Hirsch.
Arnie’s Apocalypse
It’s Arnie’s world and the rest of us are just living in it. The San Diego Union Tribune is reporting that California is on the precipice of mandating that debtor institutions accept its IOUs as payment.
While this would nominally allow California to stave off impending fiscal doom, the ramifications of doing so are fantastically interesting.
Colgate Wisp Infomercial
It’s good to know that the legacy of Billy Mays is alive and well.
Need an inter-dimensional warp? No problem…
LSD Inventor Corresponds with Steve Jobs
Last week, the Huff Post published a heretofore little known letter sent from 101-year old LSD developer Albert Hofmann (who passed last year at 102) to Captain of Industry, Steve Jobs. The letter referenced Jobs’ well known affinity for psychedelics and requested support for the first medicinal study of LSD in over 35 years.
Auto-tuning the News
Just in case you believed that any of your favorite Autotune-abusing artists, have any talent, whatsoever, look at how great it makes Michele Backman sound.
Dude, Where’s My Hangover?
I like the meta-story of Todd Phillips writing The Hangover after a night of binge drinking, having forgotten that he was stealing the plot of Dude, Where’s My Car?
“He-cession?”
Reihan Salam, in last week’s Foreign Policy, argued that this recession represents “The Death of Macho.” She cites an unemployment rate that is hitting male workers much more severely than female, and criticizes a culture of high risk, high leverage tactics which she associates with the macho business culture.