“Be still laddie. For shall all be over soon. When the wits of men no longer conquer the evil forthwith upon the precipice upon thine breasts.
PRECIPICE…”
The chamber suddenly erupted in the sound of Sugarfree vomiting at those words.
“No debí haber confiado en ese tipo peruano.” Don Brett lamented.
”What did you give him?” I asked.
“Quería emprender un viaje espiritual.” Don Brett began. “El peruano me vendió algo para un viaje espiritual.”
“You have no idea.”
Don Brett shook his head no, presumably in Spanish.
-48 hours earlier-
“Hmm. NOLA style milk stout with…chicory? What the hell is chicory?” I asked aloud to myself. At some point the goofy Russian guy is going to ask why I mutter incoherently in front of the beer coolers in his store.
”Maybe I should try this mayonnaise beer, but why is it Hellman’s? I’m west of the Rockies.”
My phone buzzed in my jacket pocket. Undisclosed number. It could be anyone. It could be a scam I thought. I know too many people that make calls via their VPN. Lets be real, I know exactly who is calling me.
”Hello?” I answered.
”At the end of the day, there is no sense in troubling ourselves over simple ideas passed down in ubiquity, these ideas are open source, there is no citation needed; case in point the treasure trove of narrow and mostly fake subjects prevalent in academia today…” Sugarfree was on a roll.
”Its fake AND gay. It can’t be one or the other anymore. Thanks a lot 4Chan.” I tried to interrupt.
”Yes, it’s not about plagiarism as much as the exhaustion of a narrow and mostly fake subject, but it is also a problem in academia, if you were to, more likely if I were to look up dissertations tagged as being about science fiction in a dissertation subject database, at least half of the dissertations are about Frankenstein another 15% were about The Last Man—Mary Shelley’s other science fiction novel, with the other half of the remaining being Margaret Atwood, an amazing body of work an enterprising mind could analyze, so many potential subjects, but writing a single book to death is what is acceptable.”
”See? Fake and gay.” I said
I pulled the phone from my ear when it sounded like Sugarfree began to vomit. I dropped the mayonnaise beer on the floor to damage the can, and put back in the cooler.
“This is so abominable, I refuse to purchase it at full price.” I said aloud to myself again. “Chicory it is.”
-24 hours ago-
“I just want to make sure I have this right.” Swiss began the Zoom call. “Sugarfree asked to go on a spiritual journey, and now Sugarfree is missing…why does this only seem to happen during the holidays when engagement is low and we’re trying to find content?”
STEVE SMITH shrugged.
”What did he take?” I asked.
”STEVE SMITH GET SUGARMAN TEA FROM DON BRETT. STEVE SMITH PROMINENT FOREST SHAMAN.”
”Of course you are.” I replied.
”STEVE SMITH NOT SEE SPIRIT JOURNEY LAST LONGER THAN FOUR HOURS.”
”If your spiritual journey lasts longer than four hours please seek immediate medical attention.” Swiss quipped.
STEVE SMITH narrowed his gaze. “THIS SERIOUS CHEESE MAN. SUGAR MAN CAN FALL INTO MADNESS. WRONG SPIRITS NOT COOL. RAPE MIND. SUGAR MAN TALK TO WRONG SPIRIT, SUGAR MAN TURN TO X/1 MAN, 2X BUFFALO, X^2 SKUNK APE, 1/X MACHINE ELF”
”I can’t do that kind of math in my head.” I said.
“Mein gott.” Swiss said. “I can’t either, but think of the content that screwball will come up with.”
An ominous alert popped up in the Zoom..
Sugarfree has entered the Zoom
He stared into the camera with the pupils of his eyes revealing the depths of hell. For some reason he was wearing a rain coat.
”We began our journey the same as any other, we walk to work, we enter the book suppositories and we take in the quiet calmness of absolutely nobody being in the building with us, the fetid stench of mothballs, the trash that should have been emptied by the Costa Rican immigrant slave to the university holding his student visa hostage, why he constantly forgets to throw out our trash is an indisputably vile act of spite upon us because he thought the visa system was not real communism.”
”COME BACK SUGAR MAN. SUGAR MAN HEAR STEVE SMITH?”
“Then he thought his AntiFa troll would get the best of us when he walked through the book suppository and chose some random book, Margaret Atwood, he sat there tearing page after page of bile from the spawn of demons and Barbara Walters, we looked on our utility belt and found that we had a cattle prod, he stopped tearing pages after that.”
”WHY YOU DO THAT SUGAR MAN?”
”First edition, obviously university worshiping demons would have a first edition from the spawn of demons.”
”SUGAR MAN DANCE ON VEIL. KEEP HIM PUT. STEVE SMITH FIND SUGAR MAN”
STEVE SMITH LEAVE ZOOM
“Umm. How you holding up Sugarfree?” Swiss asked.
”You send the skunk ape to capture us, we are ready for the skunk ape just as we were ready for AntiFa.” Sugarfree held up the cattle prod to the camera. “We will introduce the splorch. Pretend the skunk ape was not warned at your own peril.”
”Umm. Your turn Mex.”
”Hey Sugarfree, what do you know about Chicory?” I asked. Swiss narrowed his gaze.
”The chicory plant, a perennial used to feed livestock, as a folk remedy, and as a vegetable in human diets, the root is often used as a coffee substitute and can be converted to alcohol, a few studies found that chicory root contains phytochemicals, including inulin, which is a prebiotic that supports healthy gut bacteria, in many cases it has antioxidant, anticancer, and anti-inflammatory properties, which is why some people use it as a medicinal herb; Chicory root coffee gained popularity toward the end of the 18th century, its use in coffee and as a coffee substitute is one of the most recognized uses of chicory root today, reasons people may choose chicory root coffee in lieu of regular coffee include it being a caffeine-free alternative, that it contains inulin, a prebiotic, which may help support a healthy gut, a source of flavonoids (a phytonutrient), tannins, and coumarins have antioxidant, anticancer, and anti-inflammatory properties, some hippies just put chicory root in regular coffee, thus offering the benefits of chicory root without sacrificing the coffee they love while also reducing the caffeine content depending on how much one may consume, researchers examined the effects of chicory root extract on blood glucose(blood sugar) and bowel movements and found that after four weeks of consuming chicory root, participants had improved hyperglycemia(high blood sugar) and bowel movements.” He stopped to vomit on the keyboard.
”That’s impressive.” I said.
”To avoid plagiarism charges from right wing media,” he gasped briefly, “we will leave a citation in the chatbox.”
Swiss looked up from his phone. “It looks like Don Brett found him in his vault.”
“Before we ask any more relevant questions, why is STEVE SMITH weeping uncontrollably in the corner of a bank vault?” Swiss asked.
”SUGAR MAN HAVE CATTLE PROD.”
”He wasn’t kidding.” I said.
“Nada de armas. No podemos dispararle.” Don Brett cautioned.
”That’s true, its not his fault he thinks we’re demons.” Swiss replied. Both looked at me.
”SUGAR MAN CONSUMED BY SPIRITS” He sat there sobbing. “HE DANCE ON PRECIPICE.”
”Okay, so that means you talk to him first.” Swiss said to me.
”Fuck that, he has a cattle prod.” I said.
”Sure, but this being your story we don’t have much of a choice. You have to go in, it wouldn’t make sense to send Swiss or Brett into a vault to talk to Sugarfree on a psychedelic trip.” Swiss explained.
“Come here.” Sugarfree said.
I looked at Swiss. “You should do as he says.”
“I SAID COME HERE.” Sugarfree said again.
Something compelled me to move across the dark, cold room to the throne upon which Sugarfree sat.
Swiss closed the steel vault door behind me.
Sugarfree held out the cattle prod to my ear.
”I hold a rancid Rabbit vibrator. I’m sure you can hear the humming, wiggling sillyfoam dick spin and see the flashy lights in the corner of your eye. I won this in an Ebay auction. I don’t know who’s pussy this belonged.”
I winced a bit. “I’m pretty sure that’s a cattle prod.” I said.
”WHOM. TO WHOM THIS PUSSY IT BELONG” STEVE SMITH bellowed from the other side of the vault door.
“SILENCE. Now…put your hand in the box.” Sugarfree said.
”What box?”
“The box? You know the box. What’s in the box?” Sugarfree commanded. I did as he asked, and put my hand where I assumed Sugarfree left a box in his mind…
For the record: chicory does taste like coffee. Its not exactly the same though, a bit woodier if that is a word. Luckily such flavors are normal for such a style. Too bad it was a bit sweet. Sort of like one of those iced lattes you find at Whole Foods or some other establishment selling fine products to hippies with too much goddamn money. A healthy 7% ABV though is enough to help you forget about the whole thing entirely. Coronado Brewing Co. Early Bird Milk Stout: 3.1/5
Relaxing on a beach somewhere?
i am not drunk enough for this
What’s in the box?
RM Mohiam: pain.
The cilantro and lime on the label of the mayo beer is a nice touch.
I didn’t even catch that. That’s hilarious.
Its been on my iPad since December and that’s the first time I noticed it.
I just noticed it reads “Band” instead of “Brand”. And that weird double-N. And what does that even read above “Mayonaise Beer”? And “mayonnaise” is misspelled…
It’s like a fractal of weirdness. AI-generated?
Its an AI image, for now.
Kitchen demo! https://ibb.co/3BRNhR0
She has some anger she is getting out
Are you maintaining a safe distance?
I wanted to do just a small section…she has….gone crazy
that is a fancy hat.
nice toque, eh
Keeps the dust off your head.
https://ibb.co/CbF1Jkf
Progress
Love the non-load-bearing section on the right.
The whole thing is a quarter wall minus the edge which most likely is a support down to the basement.
Looking at that, I’m more glad than usual that I’m done renovating.
In terms of renovation this one is easy. Reciprocating saw incoming and will open up thr kitchen to the living room/dining room.
I don’t blame her. I hate those walls that don’t go to the ceiling.
Mrs OBE “right!”
Pink hat, pink hammer, pink insulation…
Is it still October down there ?
Eh, they can have a place. We’ve got one that works.
Agreed…it just closed off the room too much
Speaking of horror fantasy
New York Attorney General Letitia James is calling for a $370 million fine against former President Donald Trump and his companies and a lifetime ban on him and two of his former company executives from the real estate industry in the state.
Attorneys from James’ office requested the punishment in post-trial motions filed Friday in the Trump fraud case. They said that Trump owes $168 million of interest allegedly saved through fraud; $152 million from the sale of the Old Post Office building in Washington, D.C., the site of one of Trump’s hotels; $60 million through the transfer of the Ferry Point Golf Course contract; and $2.5 million from severance agreements for former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Howard Weisselberg and ex-Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney.
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James’ office said that Trump and the others committed illegal acts with the intention to defraud and reaped millions in ill-gotten gains. The sum she is seeking is well over the $250 million that she had initially estimated in 2022 that Trump and his business should pay in damages.
Why wouldn’t she do for a 50% kicker? Interest rates have gone up.
” $152 million from the sale of the Old Post Office building in Washington, D.C., the site of one of Trump’s hotels”
Obviously subject to “restitution” in the state of New York.
Remember, he has already been found guilty by summary judgement… before even putting on any defense.
The same judge gets to decide. Probably will double the ask. Might find a way to give the dewrh penalty.
Theft, straight up, and if they can do that to someone with his resources just think of what they could do to any one of us.
Resources sure, but Trump seems to be uniquely unable to find and hold onto competent legal counsel. Remember, Cohen was a long-time Trump attorney.
All the smart attorneys know better
They know better than to put themselves on the bullseye for our deranged Ruling Class.
Trump is an almost peerless non good underling picker, it is known.
so unfair….I’m calling a press conference right now!
– Omarosa Manigault Newman
whatevs
– Anthony Scaramucci
I don’t know what you’re talking about. I don’t see anything wrong with her.
https://archive.is/BrvbL/f92fe58b2b9e8ad04944f2f464054d5503cb5345.jpg
Not. A. Damn. Thing.
“$168 million of interest allegedly saved through fraud”
I recall a banker testifying that the claimed values didn’t make any difference.
The AG of NY knows better than some dumbass commercial banker!!!
It’s all so stupid.
“This is worth $500 million”.
“OK, we’ll take your word for it”, said no bank ever.
I’m curious how they expect him to pay the fine if he cannot sell his NY based assets to cover it?
A place for Pie to hang his hat
Spoiler alert- it might be a little bit of a challenge, getting in and out of there this time of year.
I don’t use antlers in my decorating
or these?
Why not?
I have elk and deer antlers in the house and three sets of deer antlers on the back porch. The surplus antlers are in the garage.
looks good overall except the finish on most walls
Chicory sorta tastes like coffee but it has a kind of sickly sweet undertone that likes to stick to my uvula for a couple of hours afterard. Not a fan.
You sure got a pretty uvula…
Worked in an office with all dudes. My non-coffee-drinking self had to be taught how to make coffee because they went through that shit like wildfire. So, I go to New Orleans on vacation and bring back things for them. For my boss, I got a can of Cafe du Monde chicory coffee. He just looked at it and said, “Thanks” kind of flatly. I’m like, WTF?
Later, I asked him about it. He said, “I had to drink chicory for years because I couldn’t afford real coffee. I’m not touching that.”
Um. Okay then.
I’ve written the same here: none of my kin would touch the stuff*
* The Surgeon General has found that agreeing with the choices and behaviors of Clan Escaped can cause cancer, death, retardation, poverty, and incarceration.
Well, it was hurtful. Just typing that out had me a little choked up and it happened almost 30 years ago.
maybe he should have gone with “thanks! I really get a hankering for a pot of this stuff every now and then”
I think there are more varieties and brands of coffee available in the NO than anywheres
I always mixed it half and half (Du Monde) with coffee. Asian food stores have it as well as VN coffee.
I’m off to synagogue. I will be praying that mayonnaise beer isn’t real.
It is real. Google “mayo beer”, and there’s a funny review of said beer. A one time limited edition, thankfully.
/zoom in on the image
We live in a world where there’s mustard beer, pastrami on rye beer, pizza beer (brewed with actual pizzas), beef heart beer, vaginal (and beard) yeast beer, pumpkin beers, oyster stouts, and testicle beers.
At least I can still find good IPAs most of the time.
I’ve tried a pizza beer before, it wasn’t that bad.
How about pineapple pizza beer?
Vaginal yeast beer: Fact Check true
https://nypost.com/2023/11/09/lifestyle/twitch-star-making-beer-with-her-own-vaginal-yeast-theyll-drink-it/
Ick…
Its an AI…for now.
Brilliant, and funny as well. Thank you for this.
I don’t know which made me laugh harder, Sugar Free going all Captain Ahab, or Swiss’ response to being surrounded by mayonnaise beer and rapey cryptids… narrowed his gaze.
Thank you
I wanted to do just a small section…she has….gone crazy
The kitchen should be the biggest room in the house. That’s where you spend your time.
I hold a rancid Rabbit vibrator. I’m sure you can hear the humming, wiggling sillyfoam dick spin and see the flashy lights in the corner of your eye.
Some Agile prose from Sugarfree, there.
That’s high praise. Thank you.
Well damn. I haven’t seen a Coranado beer on the shelf (that I remember) for several years. Not a huge fan of milk stouts, but I’d probably give this one a go. I seem to recall Dogfish Head used to do a chicory stout that was solid.
I’m happy that I found Bells has a solid mix pack out there that includes their Best Brown Ale.
is there anything Bells doesn’t do well?
yankees are proof that doG loves us
Yes. Their Cherry Stout is an abomination. They used Michigan sour cherries, which really didn’t work (at least for me) with the stout profile.
which beers have the least flavorings beyond what grain or hops add ?
That would be most beers. Grain, hops, yeast, water. Those are the basic ingredients. You could look for a gruit if you wanted to drop the hops, but then it’s replaced with herbal blends.
If you’re asking which beers would best showcase a grain/hop, those would be SMASH beers (Single Malt And Single Hop), they’re frequent in the homebrewing community, but rare in the distributed world. The closest I recall seeing to a nationally distributed SMASH was the year that Sam Adams did a IPA single hop mix pack. Same malt bill, 2 of the standard IPA, and then 2 each of variants with just a single hop type.
That combo sounds interesting to me. Shame it didn’t work out.
OT
does FourScore turn four score and seven this year ?
Yep, 5 more months
Have to ask — were you conceived in liberty? (Or on liberty… or on a Liberty Ship…. 😉 )
Had some great stuff at Coronado Brewing during a couple visits in August (hope to stay on North Island again sometime this year – nice to be within walking distance of bases). Any recommendations for [good] breweries near Port Hueneme in Ventura County?
Currently waiting on a slow cooker pot of pasta sauce (beef, sausage and kielbasa, etc, etc) – should be nice for spaghetti dinner in about 6 hrs and may try and take leftovers to work each night this next week.
Some great NRO articles this week:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/claudine-gays-defenders-have-it-all-backwards/ (Charlie cooke)
This is fine.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pentagon-withheld-disclosing-defense-secretarys-hospitalization-to-congress-and-press-for-days/
Shouldn’t be behind paywall.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-long-are-we-going-to-do-this/
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/which-hostile-power-is-getting-free-passage-from-the-houthis/
Would like to see more coverage of this, but we’ll see:
If the Saudis can’t handle the Houthi, why should we do their dirty work? It’s all on their peninsula. Are the Saudis just a bunch of straw dogs?
Seems like it. Why did we have to save them from Saddam?
TBF, they’ve been trying to take care of the Houthis, but our State Dept keeps bitching at them for it.
That is a European problem. There are European navies to keep open European trade routes.
Trade routes are a global problem. Should we have left the Barbary Pirates alone even though they were attacking US ships?
These are not US ships, nor are they bound for US ports or even carrying US goods. When the rest of the world wants to pay for our Navy to do this job, then we can talk.
Britannia ruled the waves because British wealth depended on trade and Britain insured most global shipping. We assumed the role as part of the Cold War bargain – but that is over.
Britannia ruled the waves, but they and the rest of Europe were happy to pay tribute to the Barbary Pirates while we took the fight to them. Global trade is vastly more integrated now in the age of containerization and this is one of the main reasons we have a Navy. The decline of Pax Americana is NOT a good thing by default.
Trade goes through the Suez Canal both directions.
I agree that someone doing this is necessary. It can even be us. But if we provide the service, we should be compensated for doing so, and our economy does not depend on this, so it can’t me imputed.
According to the biden Administration we are putting our dicks in it because we are protecting US flagged vessels (which are a rare as virginal prostitutes), are owned by US persons (more but still a small number), or- and this is the new one- have cargo owned by US persons. So if a modern container ship has one container with one AOL CD being shipped as a curio item that is being sold from a US person to a Vietnamese collector then we MUST protect every ship in the Red Sea area.
Fuck NR and the soft-neo-cons still there. What American troops in Iraq and Syria? By WHO’S FUCKING AUTHORITY in those countries?
Our lasted droning this week in the middle of the day, in the middle on Baghdad, on Palestine Street has united the Iraqi political classes from the Prime Minister on down. They all are loudly denouncing our violation of their soveignity. We may be leaving Iraq, again, in the near future.
it ultimately happened because the arguments that were made in its defense were a load of old bollocks
This strikes me as delusional ivory tower rationalization. “We realized we didn’t have a leg to stand on”? Really?
Yes, academia has a credibility and a legitimacy problem, but they’re going to be the last ones to realize it, and they’re nowhere close yet.
The reason this happened is simple. Much of the money, influence, and networking is flowing through old liberal channels, much of which is Jewish or Jew friendly. Much of the activism and revolution making flows from the professors, the administrators, and affiliated NGOs, none of them have power aside from what is provided by those old liberal channels.
The people who fund Harvard and their affiliates told Harvard to knock it off, and they doubled down. The funders then called the bluff.
This wasn’t a principled retreat. It was the dog responding to a command from its master.
RIP The Dozer.
This morning he took his last car ride. Unfortunately it was to the vet to get the Big Shot™.
The house is conspicuously empty.
where’d you get him? where all had he been with you?
He was the step-dog. He was Jugsy’s when we met. Around 3 years old then, and not happy to relinquish his spot as “sole male in the house’.
And my forearms still have the scars to show it.
I have a firm two-testicle limit on my household.
Sorry to read that. I’m still missing my furry friend from the end of last year.
Ugh. He’ll always be in your memories.
I’m sorry, homey! 😢
Sorry to hear that.
That’s hard. I’ve got two 13 year old dogs (from a breed where 10 years is good run). Can’t be long now, and I’m dreading it.
How’s Jugsy doing?
Not taking it well. When I met her, there were 2 boxers: Dixie and Dozer (we’re not at all white trash). Dozer was Dixie’s son from an accidental litter.
I was told that on his journey into the world, he was stuck (likely due to his size) and Jugsy had to assist by physically pulling him out. I believe he was the last of 12.
As you can imagine, he was always her “little boy”.
Well, this IS the forecast for the week that NA conjured for me.
Virgo: 3 of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion.
Ooof, sorry, man.
Their unconditional love makes their passing especially hard.
So sorry Tres
Sorry, dude. 🍺
😟
My condolences to you and Jugsy. That last drive is a heartbreaker, even, or especially, when it’s the right thing to do.
where’d you get him? where all had he been with you?
reboot, I thought
that will clean up performance, I thought
it’s never operator error, I thought
“Almost every sheriff and most of the county state’s attorneys have stated they will not enforce this act,” he said. “So residents of those counties had very little incentive to register.”
“He stared into the camera with the pupils of his eyes revealing the depths of hell. For some reason he was wearing a rain coat.”
I assumed SF always looked this way.
He’s actually resembles a combination of John Goodman, Wilfred Brimley and Pauley Shore.
I’d watch that movie
That’s disturbingly accurate.
That sounds like a description of Alfred Hitchcock with a mustache.
For some reason I always picture him like this.
I thought SF was covered in shit.
Because that’s just how librarians roll?
SF is a librarian?
yes
I think so, although I couldn’t tell you when I (thought I) read that.
Sugarfree is an archivist,
He’s not just some old lady shouting “SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”.
The last time I went to the library to work, the only loud person in the place WAS the librarian and she was shouting her convo across the (very gigantic) room. And it was just convo. Nothing about work.
SHhhhhhhhhhhh
Just ran across this, for anyone who needs some sunshine in their day:
https://gardenandgun.com/category/sporting/good-dogs/
The Garden and gun archive of their dog articles and contests. Many good bois.
Movie-wise, finally got around to watching Crichton’s “The Great Train Robbery” last night. For some reason I’ve never read the book before either…
The remastered blu-ray looks great and some great stunts even on a train moving *only* 50mph. Highly Recommended. (actual BR is much better HD than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT-2VYul_78)
Well, I suppose writing more glibs articles is writing.
Now if I could finish stuff I had already started…
Are you ready for some football???
I’m a little surprised that the Ravens are sitting some key guys. They’ll probably still win anyway, but it might gay interestingl.
My furnace is broken
eom
Hopefully one of your handy neighbors can have a look! Fingers crossed it’s something cheap like needing a new starter capacitor.
I know nothing of RVs. Is the furnace propane or electric?
Propane…I’m hoping it’s some kind of gunge on the ignition. RV guy seems to think that may be it, after I sent him a couple of audio files. Won’t be til next week that it gets looked at, though. Space heater is doing yeoman’s work right now. Can’t wait to see my electric bill.
If you have hot wire ignition, you can buy a replacement part at a local hardware store and do it yourself. Have to handle with cotton gloves though to keep from getting finger oil in it. Google your furnace model to see what igniter you need.
Other possibility is that the igniting is ok, but the flame sensor is hunker up. That would look and sound like the little flame jets ignite, but then the furnace shuts them back down because the flame sensor couldn’t confirm that the gas in burning. To cure that problem, just unscrew the flame sensor (again, google your furnace model) and scrub down the flame sensor (a narrow metal tube) with steel wool until it’s clean and shiny.
Good luck!
Thank you!
I have the weirdest erection right now.
Coming from you, that’s saying something.
Im not Yufus but Id have a look.
I’m much better working on the cable tho. Have you ever seen “Log Jammin””?
Elwood: Baby clothes…
Jake: This place has got everything.
Drunk lady drives through smoke shop.
Wow—she really drove all the way through it!!
Popcorn time!
Ackman Plans to Check MIT’s Kornbluth, Staff for Plagiarism
Business insider was nicely douchey by not contacting him directly, but instead contacting his hedge fund and doing so on a Friday evening.
Business Insider is basically the Teen Vogue of “finance” mags. Just trash.
Utter trash.
Started at the top.
Henry Blodget Was Banned From the Financial Industry. So He Built a Financial Media Empire.
When I worked on Wall St. I had to take the Series 86 and Series 87 and I referred to them them as the Blodget exams. That fucker easily wasted 80 hours of my life.