here<\/a><\/strong> and slide your cursor around the full 360. It’s amazing.<\/p>\nSomeone just paid $92 million for the top floor of a sliver, around 90 stories up. I hope they got an emergency generator to run the elevators when Con Edison doesn’t.<\/p>\n
One Swiss bank is now charging negative interest rates, causing “shockwaves” according to Business Insider this morning. But it’s nothing new. When I had a Swiss bank account, the only thing the bank excelled at was charging fees. Swiss banks have a brilliant business model — secrecy and a number.<\/p>\n
If you die and forgot to give your family the number, tough. The bank keeps all your money. Your family can go pound sand.<\/p>\n
The world remains awash in oil. Soon more is coming from Iran. Venezuelan oil minister Eulogio del Pino guessed that in 2016 oil could go to the “mid-20s.” That’s big-time dislocation.<\/p>\n
Matt Taibbi wrote in Rolling Stone:<\/p>\n
Conventional wisdom in America is finally out of ideas with regard to the Middle East. No matter what any of the candidates on either side of the aisle say publicly about the Islamic State, privately nobody has a clue. The only thing that everyone can agree on is that ISIS scares the hell out of people, and nobody wants to get within 100 miles of even one of those crazy bastards.<\/p>\n
Once, there were people like Friedman and Donald Rumsfeld who thought Middle Easterners everywhere, even potential terrorists, would get with our program after one whiff of a Cinnabon (and after experiencing the honor of freely voting for an American-sponsored politician).<\/p>\n
But we\u2019re finally realizing that large parts of the region are immune to our powers of persuasion. There\u2019s not much percentage in forcing 21st-century Americana on a group of angry young religious cultists who think the 8th century smacks of dissolute modernism.<\/p>\n
These people are nuts. They commit atrocities over beard length and think al-Qaeda are corrupt moderates. Any day now, they\u2019ll start emulating the radicals in Woody Allen\u2019s Bananas and begin forcing their citizens at gunpoint to wear their underwear on the outside.<\/p>\n
God knows what to do about them, but can we at least stop trying to match stupid with stupid? No more can-do capitalist evangelism, no more harebrained ideas for bringing progress to the region. Let\u2019s just get the Manson family surrounded and leave our big ideas at home, for once.<\/p>\n
\u00a0More useful tips:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n+ When your circuit blows, there are two solutions: the circuit breaker or the GFI button. Push it in. don’t forget the GFI button. It’s one one of the outlets in the circuit.<\/p>\n
+ Four things fix everything: Velcro, duct tape, WD-40 and Windex.<\/p>\n
The shiduch (the arranged marriage)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA good Hassidic family is most concerned that their 30-year-old son is unmarried. So, they call a marriage broker and ask him to find their son a good wife.<\/p>\n
The broker comes over to their house and spends a long time asking questions of the son and his parents as to what they want in a wife\/daughter-in-law.<\/p>\n
They give him a long shopping list of requirements.<\/p>\n
The marriage broker takes his time looking, and finally asks to visit the family again. He then tells them of a wonderful woman he has found. He says she’s just the right age for the son. She keeps a Kosher home, she regularly attends synagogue and knows the prayers by heart, and she’s a wonderful cook.<\/p>\n
She loves children and wants a large family. And, to crown it all off, she’s gorgeous.<\/p>\n
After hearing all this, the family is very impressed and begins to get excited about the prospects of a wedding in the near future. But the son pauses and asks inappropriately: ‘Is she also good in bed?’<\/p>\n
The marriage broker answers… ‘Some say yes,\u00a0 some say no….’<\/p>\n
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\nHarry Newton who, this morning, will be presented with a Certificate of Appreciation<\/em> from his Palm Desert dentist, Dr. Mac. The Certificate is for putting his grandchildren through college. Yes, it’s true: I’m with Dr. Mac at 8:00 AM. Also true is that Sophie, age 15 months, has more real teeth than I do.<\/p>\nSon Michael has asked me for a verbal family history, including how my father and mother ran away from Nazis in 1939 and arrived in Australia as stateless refugees. (Just like today’s Syrians.) Father’s first job was making hamburgers for American GIs on R&R in Sydney. which he did enthusiastically. After the war, he became an investment banker and never ate another onion for the rest of his live. He said his hands stunk of cutting up onions for all those hamburgers and he couldn’t take the smell any longer.<\/p>\n
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