Doesn't he know that narcissists are immune to irony, and negative psychology in general?

It's still in beta and buggy. I'm tired of pressing the send button and having to wait 30 seconds for the email to be sent. Sometimes I read an email and do a refresh and the email is still marked unread. There are other issues too. Google search has also recently lost its edge. Some obvious results don't show up.

Google knows that mothers bring us into this world and can screw us like no father could, so it's giving us a gentle hint to maybe lay off our dad's case and cherche la femme. Bravo Google.

After all, no one's yet written a book called "Daddie Dearest".

and returned to grad school to do my PhD in science.

I looked around me at Morgan Stanley and realized the show was being run by pathological narcissists and people with mafia personalities. I noticed people cooking up the numbers (and hiring foreigners to do it so that they would be more easily subject to manipulation). Goldman Sachs, if anything, is worse. The whole industry is rotten and its rot has infected the legislature and America itself.

Empires in advanced stages of decay go through such periods. Now if we cannot clean up our own house, how can we do anything about the Taliban taking over the nuclear power Pakistan?

is already being widely quoted by Israeli papers.

sure was worth watching.

This piece is right on. Iran won't change its behavior as long as the former administration gets away with its actions over the past 8 years.

A few years ago they tasered a Polish guy at the Vancouver Int'l airport and killed him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dziekański_Taser_incident

"Islam took off in Saudi Arabia 600 years later."

Yeah, and it borrows heavily from both Judaism and Christianity. Read the Koran before disputing the common roots of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

Obama needs to get rid of him. Geithner has been doing the bidding for Goldman Sachs, et al.

We need individual at the Treasury and the Fed who are independent and not corporate lobbyists. No more Geithners, Rubins, Paulsons, Greenspans, Bernankes. If we don't learn the lessons of this past crisis, it will happen again,

Thanks to Salon for making this available.

and we all read about it in Salon.

There may be something like that going on. But please, let's not believe an Israeli paper's account of an anonymous witness. They have an agenda.

I'm surprised you didn't point this out.

Shame on the major US media, including the NY Times, for not digging deeper into the mechanisms used by Goldman Sachs to make its profits. Its very clear that there is a pipeline between the tax papers pockets and Goldman's coffers. With its huge army of lobbyists and the revolving door operating between Goldman executive offices and US government, they have been able to game the system.

We should all remember that Goldman was counterparty to 12-13 billion dollars of AIG credit default swaps. It had taken a speculative position, but did not have to suffer because the tax papers bailed out AIG on the advice of government officials with links to Goldman. This is not risk taking. This is cheating; this is fraud.

The US media, and our representatives (e.g. Chuck Schumer), have been the enablers of this legalized fraud. Shame on them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/business/13goldman.html?hp

NPR shouldn't take it's listeners for granted.

Let's send them all to Arabia where they came from!

who put shark, blue fin tuna, and other endangered fish, on the menu. The "Eat Local" movement got a boost from chefs adopting it, so they have the power to make an impact.

Democracy depends on people putting pressure on their leaders. 30 years ago, during the Iranian revolution, people put no pressure on Khomeini and he created the role of the Supreme Spiritual Leader for himself. And the rest is history. Any leader has the potential to become authoritarian if given the opportunity. Obama may already in fact started down that path.

Thanks.

To prove that US meddling in Iran's affairs could backfire, this appeared in NIAC's blog (http://niacblog.wordpress.com/) today:

2:51 pm: State media: “US House passes sanctions to support Mousavi”

Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee voted to prohibit US Export-Import loans from helping companies involved in Iran’s petroleum industry. Today, Iran’s Kayhan Newspaper said this:

“Representatives of the US congress, in support of Mir Hussein Mousavi and the hooligans, asked for sanctions on oil importations to Iran. According to a report by Reuters, based on a plan introduced by one of the committees of the US congress, limitations will be put on exporting oil to Iran. Mark Kirk, one of the designers of these sanctions, while supporting the hooligans, said ‘when they are being suppressed in Tehran, we should not help Iran’s economy.’ It should be mentioned that setting gas stations on fire is one of the destructive recommendations that anti-revolutionary websites and media, who lead the chaos, have given to the thugs. Creating sanctions against gas importation by Iran, is one of the tools that has been suggested in the US political arenas during the past year.”