Hotel Mount Pleasant

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• BPA: If you REALLY want to look at the credit crunch as it relates to central banking and first-world economies,...
• BPA: I guess you all better watch your backs when I come home!
• MAT: This is the best internet video I have seen in a long, long time. Many thanks for posting this.
• MM: Apparently the feds are promising a solution.
• MAT: Sorry about the broken link. The proposal’s correct link is: http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/ 574/a/67096...
• MAT: It’s probably true that this fellow sweats pretense, but d-bag of the year? That not only seems harsh, but...
• MM: Oh man, I was just logging in to post this. It was also picked up by Marginal Revolution. Good catch ID.

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  At least at HMP you’re not subject to attack by these creatures.

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  Still trying to figure out what the whole subprime mess is about? Maybe these two can help.

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  I’ll grant that Boston was a great city as recently as 220 years go.

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  I’m glad Ivana’s just a transplant, not one of these native French prostitutes.

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  Is this guy not everyone’s hero? Update: How about now? Perhaps not?

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  Even though atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to accumulate - it’s up about 4 percent since 1998 - the global mean temperature has remained flat.

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  Not with a stripper, but with this guy, because he has no qualms about saying what the rest of us are thinking.

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Extracts

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  …and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

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  If indeed Iran stopped its nuclear-weapons program in 2003, is it a coincidence that this was the same year America made good on its threat of military force against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq?

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  It is an illusion of youth that one can attain the universal without becoming anything in particular.

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  From the Renaissance onward a synthesis has no longer existed. Men began to discover the discrepancies between the world of sensation and the world of objectivity from which these sensations derived their stimuli. In short, the scientific method, the beginnings of inquiry into the nature of things, had forever disrupted the unity that had existed between the objective world and the imaginative;

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  Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once.

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