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- THIS WAS WHY PAUL KRUGMAN DID NOT WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE: “Now, as we survey the wreckage and try to understand how things can have gone so wrong, so fast, the answer is actually quite simple: What we’re looking at now are the consequences of a world gone Madoff.” [NYT]
Mad world or Mad World?
Excerpt From Paul Krugman’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech:
“I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. That is, unless the financial system spirals out of control and we find ourselves in a wold gone Madoff.”
Possible double post GO!
Mad world or Mad World?
Woof. That’s the sort of pun Tina Brown used to use in Tatler.
Here’s a preview of his next column (quite poetic, I think):
In a world gone Madoff it’s hard to think right
So much violence hate and spite
Murder going on all day and night
Due time we fight the non-violent fight
Mirrors, smokescreens and lies
It’s not the politicians but their actions I despise
You and Saddam should kick it like back in the day
With the cocaine and Courvoisier
But you build more bombs as you get more bold
As your mid-life crisis war unfolds
All you want to do is take control
Now put that axis of evil bullshit on hold
Citizen rule number 2080
Politicians are shady
So people watch your back ’cause I think they smoke crack
I don’t doubt it look at how they act
[CHORUS]
“Amid the chaos of that day, when all I could hear was the thunder of gunshots, and all I could smell was the violence in the air, I look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true, that three words went through my mind endlessly, repeating themselves like a broken record: you’re so cool, you’re so cool, you’re so cool.”
Puns, go fuck yourself.
I heard they considered a Nobel for punning, but decided it would be a cut-rate prize.
Why is Krugman Pauling around with financial terrorists?
He’s an economist, all he knows are numbers. The division symbols and equations that were his only friends as a child. As such, he hasn’t evolved his sense of humor past the level of a fourth grader. At least he isn’t making elephant jokes.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
bago: i like the original video better. Great song though. The cello MAKES it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
I’m just glad the guy’s name wasn’t Yerkov.
TGY: Are you suggesting it would become Noblesse oblige?
Krugtacular!
Roger Ailes, surveying FoxNews ratings: “Now, as we survey the wreckage and try to understand how things can have gone so wrong, so fast, the answer is actually quite simple: What we’re looking at now are the consequences of a world gone Maddow.”
p-Sludge: Tarantino can be quite poetic. My favorite lines are a bit more crass though. example:
“Do I look like a beautiful blonde with big tits and an ass that tastes like French vanilla ice cream?”
(to which my boyfriend replys, “yes.”)
actor212: I don’t want to hear Krugman’s comments on Jack Abramoff.
Not to hijack the thread, but http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story/628010.html
Is this not important to Wonkette?
Or do the methlab jokes write themselves too easily?
This is what confuses me: Almost all humans have been greedy, evil bastards, forever. Periodically, we have democrats in charge, and they put a bunch of regulations in place, and less people get poisoned or have their cars explode, etc. & then the Christians start believing what their preachers tell them about them being good & capable of making decent, human scale decisions. & then we elect Republicans, and they deregulate everything, and outsource everything, and start importing a whole bunch of poisonous baby toys, and people throw up there hands and shout “Gaaa! How did this happen!?!” The end.
You already know how this will end.
We’re talking about a lot of money here. In recent years the finance sector accounted for 8 percent of America’s G.D.P., up from less than 5 percent a generation earlier. If that extra 3 percent was money for nothing — and it probably was — we’re talking about $400 billion a year in waste, fraud and abuse.
And hey, Dubya wanted to add — with his Social Security reform — another 1 percent. He often brags about his Harvard MBA. Anyone want to try to convince me that he didn’t know his little plan was sort of a Ponzi scheme itself?
Was that a Nobel or Ig Nobel prize?
In other news, true to (trailer trash) form, Levi’s mom has been arrested for dope… you know, Levi, the dude that knocked up Bristol Palin.
When will the world go Jack Meoff?
Monsieur Grumpe:
Was that a Nobel or Ig Nobel
prize?
Fixed? Stoopid hyper link crap dummy.
Krugman is still madding-off over this?
I neither liked Belinda Carlisle’s song or Paul Reiser’s sitcom entitled Madoff About You.
That’s so cool that Krugman likes Agent Orange.
I wonder if Bernie Madoff is any relation to the Special Agent.
Madon! *clap clap*
Madoff! *clap clap*
The Clapper!
He nearly Madoff with all the money…
If he had any associates, the made-for-TV movie would be called Madoff Men.
I’ll be here all week.
He MADE OFF with our money. Get it?
Did anyone see the video of Krugman in Stockholm at the Noble ceremony with the blond princess on his arm? It was hilarious. In his tuxedo he looked like the Frog Prince or something.
Okay, here’s a pic of Paul the prince:
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/APDwKZ3i-RJ/Nobel+Prize+Award+Ceremony+2008/1_Vqjc9wRXl/Paul+Krugman
WadISay: I hope he’s not a Mets fan, since we just got JJ Putz…
I’m waiting for the Daily News backpage: “Putz Blows Save”.
Deepthroat: A friend of mine and I have a running argument over whether Gary Jules or Evergreen Terrace have the superior cover.
Deepthroat: and on that note this is the original video, bitches!
honkeyman: Jinx!
InKnockYouUs: Nice of them to included a picture of the old royal rack.
And then there’s, OMG, Amy Goodman’s New Column, “Workers Laid Off, Executives Paid Off, Bernard Madoff”.
Guppy06:
I think it very unfair that you subject me to a Brit New Wave song that I had the good fortune of never once hearing during the 80’s.
norbizness: Wasn’t Mad About You sung by Madonna?
Oh wait. That was Crazy for You. Sung by Madonna.