tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post7045697124449451976..comments2024-03-03T04:40:39.492-05:00Comments on Fire Megan McArdle: Today's Dumbbradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907349163323395529noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-59051785155939306142009-01-08T16:49:00.000-05:002009-01-08T16:49:00.000-05:00in his book the Great Crash 1929 Galbaith notes th...in his book the Great Crash 1929 Galbaith notes that the sucide rates (he inculdes stats) were low in 1929 but rose between 1930-33 the depth of depression and in people's memory bsu. It's not the event itself that breaks most sprits - its the days after that when nothing changes and indeed gets worse. I'd hate to see the suicde stats are for New Orleans these last few years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-36057236890659253212009-01-08T11:09:00.001-05:002009-01-08T11:09:00.001-05:00"useless for the rest""useless for the rest"Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-75615220386283815772009-01-08T11:09:00.000-05:002009-01-08T11:09:00.000-05:00Improve her econoblogging or your fantasy life? On...Improve her econoblogging or your fantasy life? One of those things is useless the rest of us!Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-18254388095330957342009-01-08T08:19:00.000-05:002009-01-08T08:19:00.000-05:00Sure, Megan is an untalented writer who applies mi...Sure, Megan is an untalented writer who applies minimal thinking skills to her job(life?)but you must admit she is totally fucking hot.If she would only take some style cues from Bianca Beauchamp she would definitely improve her econoblogging.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-55946607337628374722009-01-07T20:24:00.000-05:002009-01-07T20:24:00.000-05:00"Suicide tends to fall during crises--they take pe..."Suicide tends to fall during crises--they take peoples' minds off themselves."<BR/><BR/>For some reason--go understand people, as Philip Roth says--this line makes me furious and makes me realize that I will never believe anything MM says, even if it might be true. Not that my reaction is arbitrary. The idea that anyone who (as I've said here before) takes Atlas Shrugged seriously enough to adapt a character's name as her own, is to laff. The notion that such people know anything at all about human psychology is, once it stops being an obscenity, also amusing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com