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eBay has some weird stuff for sale.

The FBI continues to lag behind the times. How bad? They're hiring crooks and even letting some go so they can watch and learn instead.

Mac Vs. PC. The last word:



Here's a list of the world's riches fake people

Duke Women's Lacrosse has more balls than the President and faculty.

Red on Red continues apace in the DE blogosphere.

"If they're going to support us, support us all the way."



Muslim on Muslim violence
in Iraq. The Anti-America War crowd thinks the bad guys there are patriots fighting for their country. Um, no.

Davos Is for Wimps, Ninnies, Pointless Skeptics:

Key graf:

So why do these people waste so much of their breath and, presumably, thought, with their elaborate expressions of concern? Even if these global financial elites knew something useful that you and I don't -- that, say, 50 hedge funds were about to go under and drag with them half the world's biggest banks along with a third of the Third World -- they would be unlikely to do anything about it.

And if they really believe the markets mispriced risk, or were about to adjust, they must also believe they could make vast sums of money if they quit their day jobs and opened a hedge fund to take the other side of stupid trades. But they don't really believe that, or at least some of them would be off doing it, rather than spilling the beans to Bloomberg News.

Is perhaps the only point of standing in the snow and expressing your doubts to a television camera to prove that you are the sort of person whose doubts matter


Indeed. When was the last time you heard anything out of Davos that was correctly predictive or cautionary.

Gated communities with their own airport? Yep. Every time I think I've seen it all...

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