(H/T Prieur du Plessis)

This photo from Yves Smith’s antidote du jour was too good to pass up. You can think of the cat as the recovery stalking its prey and the bear as, well, a bear. The cat looks pretty tame though. Let’s hope this bear doesn’t come right back down and maul it.

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This comes from an e-mail from reader Scott:
Political Science for Dummies
DEMOCRAT
You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You push for higher taxes so the government can provide cows for everyone. [...]

In case you didn’t see the video already of Kanye behaving badly, I posted it as my distraction of the day yesterday. Watch that video and you will be up to speed – pretty outrageous.  Below is a Kanye West-inspired dub over of the German movie “Der Untergang”.
Apparently, this video can be used in any [...]

Below is a little clip allegedly from the Chinese newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily of some precious little schoolchildren. In the clip, a number of them tell us what they want to be when they grow up (I think I wanted to be a baseball player).
Now, I don’t speak Chinese but I understand that all [...]

Today at 8:46ET and 9:03ET, please honor those who lost their lives eight years ago with a moment of silence.
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More weekend market laughs for the financially-inclined.  Hat tip Blicklog.

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If you’re looking for a good laugh over the weekend, you might try Dow 36,000 by James Glassman, just hired as custodian of the George W. Bush legacy (hat tip Scott). It’s about the new strategy for profiting from the huge rise in the stock market. Here’s what Wikipedia says:
The argument of Glassman and Hassett [...]

Hat tip Accelerating Future.

As I mentioned earlier this week, I am actually on a two-week holiday in Simcoe County, Ontario, just 90 minutes north of Toronto.  We went to the Elmvale Jungle Zoo, an amazing place that has a huge variety of animals. It is really a remarkable zoo which I recommend highly.
Just near the end of our [...]