Well, okay, not opening day.  It’s been about a week now.  But things are off to a roaring start.  Consider, for instance, the text of this e-mail, which I received from a student: >>>I am a student in your class… I been going to tha class .. So I jus wanna kno can you please…

Okay, a couple of notes, on things I noticed and couldn’t pay attention to as I was writing. First–has Rush Limbaugh lost his mind?  I mean, okay, he hasn’t seemed really well wrapped for a while now…but don’t contribute to the White House Haiti relief fund because they’re just going to collect your e-mail information…

Done.

Okay, that doesn’t have to do with anything.  It’s just my favorite new thing I learned–the actuality is quite dry (it means people who short stocks without having first borrowed the stocks to be in physical possession of them–something that’s illegal, by the way). But I just like the term.  It reminds me of things…

Hi. I’m going to get off on a little tangent today, and I’ve got no idea if I spelled that correctly.  But the term has just about started, and I’m about ready to explode. First, you have to understand that I don’t teach to make a living.  My actual full time job, and the one…

I’ve been thinking about the statements made here that much financial crime is too complicated to make a good basis for a murder mystery, or that some of it isn’t even technically crime. Before I get to what bothers me about that, let me say that when I said that the subprime mortgage meltdown mess…

So, I’m going to skip the global warming stuff and go straight to Bernie Madoff, which at least interests me.  And the answer, of course, is that a lot of the “money’ was not money at all, but fantasy.  You’d give Bernie your cash, and you’d get statements from him saying that your portfolio had…

A couple of things here. First, Cheryl is quite right.  The world is full of serial killer books, and several writers pretty much specialize in them–like Karin Slaughter. The thing that struck me about the comments, however, was that thing about how Bernie Maddoff and the Madoff scandal is just about a lot of rich…

Okay, you know how it is.  I had to.   I did it with Matt, and what’s sauce for the goose– No, that won’t work.  They’re both ganders. But it’s Greg’s birthday today, so we have the post title, and I hope he enjoys it.  Being of a different temperament than Matt, he was so excited…

For some reason I can’t figure out, I’m having one of those days when my office is so cold I can’t stand to be in here for long.  I made myself tough it out for real work, but the blog doesn’t have that kind of compelling motivation behind it.  Usually, it doesn’t get this bad…