Maybe instead of bailing out things that are too big to fail we should arrange it so the set of things too big to fail is empty.
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22 comments
September 22, 2008 at 9:01 am
The Modesto Kid
Bernie Sanders thinks so too. See point #4.
September 22, 2008 at 9:02 am
JPool
Through clever bracketing or debiggination?
September 22, 2008 at 11:11 am
dana
I was thinking more like beating up CEOs.
September 22, 2008 at 12:06 pm
eric
Louis Brandeis got here before you.
September 22, 2008 at 12:11 pm
dana
But he didn’t have a cool blog.
September 22, 2008 at 12:14 pm
eric
But he did have the cool robes.
September 22, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Anonymous
What if Microsoft tanked?
September 22, 2008 at 1:23 pm
eric
Macintoshes for everyone!
September 22, 2008 at 2:02 pm
ari
It is getting to be apple season, isn’t it?
September 22, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Walt
What if I accidentally dropped my wedding ring into a big pot of soup?
September 22, 2008 at 2:44 pm
dana
Get a ladle and start bailing!
September 22, 2008 at 3:03 pm
ari
Ask your congressional rep. to come over and fish it out for you.
September 22, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Jason B
My precious . . .
September 22, 2008 at 3:35 pm
kid bitzer
i think that there should be a prohibition on eric’s contributing to a thread titled “idle thought”. it looks like eric idle thoughts, which are different things.
September 22, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Jason B
Aren’t you going to ‘aggle?
September 22, 2008 at 4:06 pm
andrew
How about “too failed to be big”?
September 22, 2008 at 4:18 pm
kid bitzer
‘aggle? wot dyer mean, ‘aggle?
wait; this is serious.
i just found out that thomas alva edison killed topsy the elephant.
electrocuted her, and filmed it too. there was some claim that she’d killed a trainer, but i’m pretty sure it was trumped up. and edison was trying to spread this propaganda that dc current was more dangerous, and so using dc current to electrocute anything he could get away with.
elephant-snuffer.
that fucker–now i really hate him.
September 22, 2008 at 4:41 pm
ari
For you, kb.
September 22, 2008 at 4:42 pm
ari
Sorry, kb, you may want to avert your gaze around the 1:40-1:50 mark.
September 22, 2008 at 4:46 pm
kid bitzer
wtf–why am i recapitulating blogogony in this way?
i mean–my daughter calls me on the phone and says, “was edison’s middle name “alvo”?”, and i say, “no, alva”, and then she hangs up, and then i go check on wikipedia.
then i find out the awful truth about the elephant-killing bastard, and post it here.
and then it turns out you’ve already had this conversation in march? of this year?
too weird.
and no, i’m not averting my eyes. i’m not watching *any* of it.
September 22, 2008 at 6:55 pm
ari
No, most of it is quite good. The whole vid’s not about Topsy. And it’s narrated by a cat! Check it out. Just make sure to skip the Topsy bit, which is really upsetting.
September 22, 2008 at 7:10 pm
ben
How come this blog doesn’t produce videos anymore?