[b]Michael Lewis
The first thing Gutenberg sought to publish, after the Bible, was a laxative timetable he called a “Purgation-Calendar.” Then there is the astonishing number of anal German folk sayings. “As the fish lives in water, so does the shit stick to the asshole!,” to select but one of the seemingly endless examples.[/b]
Let’s file this one under, “that doesn’t suprise me”.
And so it went in football. The game attracted the very people most likely to get in trouble outside.
And not just the thugs.
After the war Avi, by then twenty-two years old, finally decided what he would study: psychology. Had you asked him just then why he picked psychology, “I would say I want to understand the human soul. Not the mind. The soul.”
Just what we need, another one of them.
For geniuses, they are really dumb, she said. Some of them are really pampered: They can’t even put together a cardboard box. They don’t think you do something. They think you call somebody.
Let’s call them, say, “flash boys”.
A big bonus was about as well concealed on the Salomon Brothers trading floor as the results of a hot date in a high school boys’ locker room.
Gee, what do you suppose that means?
I share your feeling that such behavior is, in some sense, unwise or erroneous, but this does not mean that it does not occur, Amos wrote to an American economist who complained about the description of human nature implied by ‘Value Theory.’ A theory of vision cannot be faulted for predicting optical illusions. Similarly, a descriptive theory of choice cannot be rejected on the grounds that it predicts ‘irrational behavior’ if the behavior in question is in fact observed.
Theoretically, of course, this can mean…what exactly?