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I hadn't heard Trout Fishing in America in years.

Until I found this post on Matt G's blog. 

One of the links that he has is to a great song set to an...interesting, shall we say, photo montage.  

Finnish Polka

Very entertaining.  Via PhlegmFatale.

What caused the credit crisis?

Newsweek is reporting that it may be due to an obscure accounting rule for asset valuation.  http://www.newsweek.com/id/130029

In my opinion, that is complete and utter nonsense.   The "credit crisis" is due solely and unquestionably to consumers who were ready and willing to accept unreasonable amounts of debt in order to finance the purchase of things that they couldn't afford.  End of story.
 

Utilikilt

http://manolomen.com/2007/09/14/kilt-tough/

I'm not sure if this makes me wish I were Scottish, or glad that I'm not. 

This is bizarre.

I have to say, I've never heard of a "fake" governmental office popping up in the States.  That's one more industry India's taken the lead in.  

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/12/faux-indian-gov.html

This does it.

I'm eating nothing but hamburgers and pizza from here forward.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22116724/

Mmm....Cheese fries. Yum.

I want some.  :-)

http://www.menshealth.com/20worst/worstfood.html

An oldie but a goodie.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4581871.stm

With luck, the Brits will all soon be living locked in padded rooms, constrained by straight-jackets.  All for the safety of society, of course.

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

"If you seek peace, prepare for war."   It's a sad fact of the current state of our tapioca-brained liberal politically-correct society that these ageless words of wisdom have been replaced with something more akin to "If you seek peace, bury your head in the sand, and maybe then you won't notice that bad things can still happen." 

From the "I'll bet that spoiled the honeymoon" department...

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=83537&in_page_id=34

One more reason I don't have pets.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3162659.ece

Photo-realistic drawings.

The amazing bit is that they're all done entirely with a Bic pen.  I didn't even know this was possible.  This, ladies and gentlemen, is a *real* artist.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/01/artist-juan-fra.html

No wonder New York wants calories on menus.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22699352/

Best. Disclaimer. Ever.

http://www.nelsonrocks.org/disclaimer.html?Active=1

An amusing take on "Dangerous Financial Products"

Thankfully, Edwards is now out of the race, and this is one frivolous piece of potential legislation that we won't have to worry about.  Too bad none of the mainstream candidates have the post authors point of view.   That is, of course, assuming that Ron Paul isn't going to make a dash to the front of the race anytime soon.

http://marketcorrection.powerblogs.com/posts/1201796752.shtml