Here is a related article on what Geithner is facing and why it is a political/financially difficult thing to overcome.

Seth

Hilarious

Seth

HT to TNT

LINK

Seth

Did you hear what the agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac did? …

He stayed up all night wondering if there was a dog.

Seth

I liked it anyway.

LINK.

Seth

PS I wonder who does there writing?

On my 58th birthday, I got a gift certificate from my wife. The certificate paid for a visit to a witch doctor living on a nearby reservation who was rumored to have a wonderful cure for erectile dysfunction. After being persuaded, I drove to the reservation, handed my ticket to the witch doctor, and wondered what I was in for. The old man slowly, methodically produced a potion, handed it to me, and with a grip on my shoulder, warned, ‘This is powerful medicine and it must be respected. You take only a teaspoonful and then say ‘1-2-3. ‘When you do that, you will become more manly than you have ever been in your life and you can perform as long as you want.’ I was encouraged. As he walked away, I turned and asked, ‘How do I stop the medicine from working? ‘ ‘Your partner must say ‘1-2-3-4 ,’ he responded. ‘But when she does, the medicine wil l not work again until the next full moon. ‘ I was eager to see if it worked. I went home, showered, shaved, took a spoonful of the medicine, and then invited my wife to join me in the bedroom. When she came in, I took off my clothes and said, ‘1-2-3!’ Immediately, I was the manliest of men. My wife was excited and began throwing off her clothes. And then she asked, ‘What was the 1-2-3 for? ‘

And that, boys and girls, is why we should never end our sentences with a preposition.

But McCain is funnier by far.

HERE

EDIT: On a slightly related note, if after 3 weeks of computational physics, including several lab sessions and a whole bunch of example codes that I let you download and study, you still can’t write a single line of working Matlab code, maybe this class isn’t for you. Oh, and that computer science minor that you’re planning on? Well, if you can’t figure out how to write a single line of Matlab code, maybe programming just isn’t for you. Yes, I’m well aware that CS majors don’t do many assignments in Matlab, but the basic concepts of handling arrays and creating loops and logical structures and functions that call other functions are all pretty universal. I’m just saying.

See that computer science major sitting next to you? When he makes a mistake it’s because he decided to streamline the calculation and while farming out different parts of the calculation to different functions he forgot that certain steps of the algorithm need to share some intermediate variables. That’s the sort of mistake that some of my students don’t even know enough to make. He gets an A just for making that mistake. You made a mistake because you haven’t figured out what a FOR loop is. You get an F just for making that mistake alone. Capisce?

Oh how I wish I could teach college. Or maybe not.

The whole things is HERE.

Scott

HT to Harrison

I first watched this last December when Mankiw linked to it. It hits home even harder today then it did then. If you can’t watch the whole thing, then fast forward to the 7:45 mark. They must have read their tea leaves!

Steve