With O-Ren Ishii on the conference table cutting off someone's head as a lesson to the others.

I remember the Rover sedans and I'm almost sure they were broken off and sold to some syndicate of Honda and some Euro labels. Anyway Tata is trying to build a $2000 car for domestic consumption. Hard to see what Land Rover brings to that if anything. Seems like a truly stupid time to invest in 300hp 10mpg luxury SUV's.

The US and the EU will knuckle under and it won't make a damned bit of difference to the bigger picture and to the developing world which has little intention and even less ability to abide their own agreements. Which is fine, I guess, every little bit helps. But China has almost 100 cities of more than 1 million people each. And no pollution controls or laws let alone the wherewithal to deal with that pollution pouring out of 100 cities of 1 million people. Did you know you can see China's brown air from space? Well in either case we'll feel we did our part.

And worse, its main character you want to kill with your bare hands yourself. So which is Hillary? The Bimbot clueless victim or the psychobitch knife wielding killer from Mt. Uterus?

Your label, anti-establishment, even if you ever bothered to offer shred one of evidence that it's true is really just a new name for 'second rung'. Just because the radicals in Salon largely hate all the front runners doesn't mean that everyone else is a dark horse populist black t-shirt anti-establishment type. The 'media' and by that I guess you mean what? hasn't ignored Huckabee and Paul in the least. Edwards yes to some extent but that's because he talks about the US not Iraq.

Dhaka, Karachi, Chennai, Khartoum, Abidjan

Ever been? Cities can suuuuucckk big time.

I love it. Suck it hippies. Cook on a hot rock over a camelshit fire.

The illegal Mexican housekeeper's that's who you big silly.

Isn't he impressing his eating disorder body dismorphic patriarchy upon the wilting lilly female?

Then you can stop investing in all R+D and just steal whatever you need. I rather like the hippie-ring of that. Dude don't think, just TiVo something (bubblebubblebubble)

Abortion is a proxy issue, a thermometer for how you're supposed to feel about other things. It's not meant to be 'solved' or even seriously considered. That's because Americans are retards who look up from the trough whenever there are glittery lights and sudden noises.

So I plan to work until I drop in the harness. You have a choice. You can outlive your money, outlive your healthcare or die early. Pick one.

BTW, the notion that tax deferral works to your advantage long run has yet to be established. Everyone thinks that their 401K will be taxed less when you need it - but that still remains to be seen. I've never seen this actually happen in practice. Most deductions have been eliminated, the brackets have been expanded and the AMT will eventually eat us all alive. So your fixed income then will be taxed just like your income is now. Most people understand this intuitively which is why the early cash out rate for 401K's is more than 25% now.

It works for poor nations in the short run but drug companies eventually restrict access to their latest and greatest products which forces the patent breakers to rely on reverse engineered bootleg products of questionable quality. But hey you stuck it to the man!!!

First off - volatility is a matter of numbers not perception of numbers. In a real numerical sense the market is no more volatile now than it ever is. Large numbers are deceptive that way. Broadly - the market is up about 8% this year and the day to day deltas are in the 1-2% range max. That's not really volatility especially given the margin limits and trading circuit breakers we have.

Secondly - roaches survive because there are lots of them not because their simplicity begets survival on their own. As we learned in 'The World Without Us' the simple urban roach would die out w/o us in most of North America.

Third - Anyone knows that complexity in the secondary tertiary and quaternary derivatives since the end of Enron is a big problem. But as ANY risk manager will tell you - they're NOT all risk mitigation instruments. Some are PURE speculation. That's kind of the point: create an instrument that behaves in a VERY nonstochastic way in order to optimize return out of all proportion to 'general market conditions'.

Slavery - outright legally sanctioned in your face slavery isn't 100% abolished in the Arab/Muslim world yet. So what are you expecting? Two years ago a minor member of the Saudi Royal family, a regional governor, was murdered because he went to a meeting with women present. These are not anomalous pronouncements. This is what these peace loving peaceful people of peace believe and espouse.

In the 20th Century radicals, white shoe communists and other college quad impressionable young fools were constantly beguiled by Stalinists, Maoists, Nazis, African revolutionaries, dictators of all stripes. Not because they were stupid, but because they could not wrap their heads around the thought that vile tyrants really were who they appeared to be. The westerners love to support people they themselves imagine must be as nice and tolerant as they are - after all, we're all evolved, aren't we?

So you continue to be shocked every time some bush league culture with interesting headgear in far away lands commits some atrocity. Yeah you be shocked.