Tumbrels! Water Tiger!

As those responsible, they should have been asked to resign on the spot.

I’m confused, did Octomom fight James Bond or Spiderman?

JFC, when is somebody gonna go to jail?
thanks wt

Shirkers of the world, unite!

Heh. I was thinking of turning her into some sort of supervillain.

Asked??? How about summarily stripped of all position and property and hauled off to the stocks to be publicly pilloried. Rotten produce provided to the public for free.

~~~ModNote: No matter how tempting, in this case we need to keep our imaginations off these pages. Thanks.~~~

wife of archvillain Bernie “I’m a Prisoner in My $7 Million Apartment” Madoff, somehow managed to transfer $10 million out of a brokerage account run by her husband . . . the day before Bernie was busted

Maybe there were some really good sales?

AWESOME graphic wt.

watertiger!

is this how the French Revolution kicked off?

I’ve had the same thought lately !

Yeah. I downloaded it and printed it out to put on my office door.

I’ve had requests for t-shirts…

So where did Ruth put the money? Or did she just take $15 million in cash?

If pro baseball players ever start doping up on fertility drugs she’ll be forced to testify before the Senate.

If she is smart, under her mattress or in a Cayman Islands bank account.

Digg is open

That’d be one fat mattress.

In vitro fertilization and embryo implantation, actually.

The good fertility doc is being questioned. Apparently he has a thing for getting noticed.

Real comfy though, I hear.

dugg

His actions do seem a bit problematic.

MMM (Major Medical Malfeasance).

That wouldn’t quite work. The prison/apartment is kinda under observation. Cayman Islands, no clue. I think it would be smarter to bury it in a national park somewhere!

That would be my judgment, which is probably why they don’t let me make those judgments. ;-)

So, are anthropologists doing anything special to celebrate Darwin’s 200th? Personally, I think Homo Sapiens could use a little fine-tuning in the evolution department.

Probably the Caymans. sort of Switzerland west. The tax haven of choice for North (and South) American scumbags to hide their ill gotten gains.

scam artists like the madoffs have always been around and always will be. The real problem isn’t that there are more or worse greedy and unscrupulous people in the past, but rather the complete failure of the SEC and other agencies to provide even cursory oversight of market participants. I blame shrub (and bill c to a lesser extent)

I think Homo Sapiens could use a little fine-tuning in the evolution department.

Yeah, well evolutionary design makes Rube Goldberg seem like a paragon of efficiency. I have always said that people who believe in “Intelligent (sic) Design” either know nothing about biology or have no respect for the designer. Actually got flack on my evaluations for saying that in class last semester.

Even Adam Smith recognized the need for society to institute such laws as necessary to protect itself from the ravages of capital.

Right — remember that scene from the Soprano’s when they pulled all the cash and guns out of the house before the Feds arrived?

Yeah, I’ve always been baffled by those who believe humans were the crowning creation of a Perfect Being. Talk about your Underachievers. My aching back knows better…

lol, yup :)

good post.

Jeez, I’ve had that episode in my head all day!

it’s gone beyond absurd and is now moved into the horror genre. the banks are bankrupt, in other words dead. the effort to revive them with bailouts has resulted in zombie banks. bank CEOs may be what they used to be, but now, for our largest banks, they are zombie bankers.

I’ve always been amazed as to how little we’ve grown as a species within the frame of the gregorian calendar.

upon further reflection, i realize i’m wrong. absurd and horror are not mutually exclusive.

The leap years must be holding us back.

Your aching back is the perfect example (and the one I got in trouble for). a major reason we have back, hip, and knee problems is pelvic design. The human pelvis is caught between two conflicting evolutionary pressures: having big headed babies and walking upright. For efficient walking upright, we need a smaller pelvic opening and a slightly different alignment of the pelvis and joints. For giving birth to big headed babies, we actually need a wider pelvic opening and a bit more pelvic flair. The uneasy compromise means we put extra stress on our backs , hip joints, and knees, that human infants are born premature (human infants do not achieve the level of development in newborn chimps until they are 6 months old), and that birth is much more difficult and dangerous for humans. The fetal head is larger than the pelvic opening, breaking it every time the woman gives birth. In all other primates and mammals there is substantial clearance.

Yes, bankers and other top corporate types are still blood sucking fiends, just as they always were.

lolz, gud 1

as a mother, i can say it hurt just reading that

It is also why medical examiners can determine how many children a woman has had.

The fetal head is larger than the pelvic opening

NOW you tell us.

*as all the non-female and non-anthropologist types back slowly away from their screens*
ouch

Looks like it worked.

They should have screened the scene in The Grapes of Wrath where the bank bulldozes the farm house forcing the Joads to migrate. That would have put everyone in a great mood before the hearing.

The next step is elongated pinheads!

I have also long said that the inability of humans to remember actual pain is the only thing which has kept the species from going extinct.

Republicans are an evoluntionary dead-end.

So we should lay eggs instead?

I think that they are what happens when the pubic arch doesn’t separate.

they’re vampires? cool

Hey newt! Heh heh heh, funny if it wasn’t so tragic. Sorry, I was off reading about France in an earlier post. Oh, those Sopranos…

The fetal head is larger than the pelvic opening, breaking it every time the woman gives birth. In all other primates and mammals there is substantial clearance.

I’m not sure that this last part is true. Rather the skull of the fetus is more flexible. The sutures are not closed so the head deforms somewhat passing through the birth canal. You can tell the difference between a vaginal birth and a Caesarean in the period shortly after birth because the Caesarean will have a rounder looking head. I’m not sure of the timeframe but the regular childbirthed baby’s skull will shift back to a rounder form.

A little late for that evolutionarywise, unfortunately. Find a way for men to give birth or at least directly experience the pain of childbirth and medical science will find a way to correct the problem within a generation.

I’ve heard that shrub’s shortlived second SEC head, Donaldson, had strong views on the desire of the administration to defang and destroy the securities regulatory structure. Perhaps he should get subpeonaed by congress and questioned.

I always felt that Tony and Carmella were examples for our time, but this is an unexpected display.

Actually it is. I have a chart that shows the relative size of the fetal head and the pelvic opening in several primate and mammalian species that I show in class. Substantial clearance for all species except humans. The soft heads (part of being premature) is also part of the compromise. Even with the fetal skull compressing slightly (very much would cause brain damage), the central suture of the pelvic arch breaks and slightly separates to allow the head through. Pathologists can judge how many children a woman has had by counting the scars on the pubic suture.

the madoffs maintained a sopranos-like organization. Bernie’s daughter in law was his legal compliance officer, for example…. which is hilarious if you think about it

Consigliere for the family.

Sounds a little like ballistics. The phrenologists were on to something, the bumps on our heads might correspond to the rifling of our mother’s pelvic openings…

Then I hope for her sake (not really) that she hustled her kids out of the country, because the Feds™ are probably looking for ‘familials’ to lean on.

Three months or so.

That little groove under our noses, you mean?

That was even weirder than it was funny and it was damn funny.

the head of complaince is apparently quite a socialite and fashionista….

I know, it’s not a comment, it’s a diary.

Guess it is a bit. It is also the reason why we probably will never evolve into those grotesquely big headed freaks they always showed in sci-fi movies. Might be possible if c-section becomes normal and removes the selective pressure. Otherwise, we have maxed out on head size.

Unless they figure out a way to spawn humans in vats. Given the role beer frequently plays in conception we’re halfway there already.

I wonder what a humanistic society, as compared and contrasted by a consumer society, could achieve.

But quantity?

Meet the Trickler’s.

-G

alcohol in the blood serum.

are the back, knee and hip problems an issue before midlife (child bearing and raising years)?

lisa upstairs

Not if you’re lucky. I was born with a defective spine. I remember having back pain as a young child but had no idea that wasn’t normal.

Yep. They are structural problems related to the overall design of the pelvis to allow birthing bigheaded babies, not a direct consequence of actual childbirth. The problems do get more pronounced after midlife owing to prolonged strain and stress.

I have also had back problems (not very severe mostly) for much of my life.

So that is what that snapping sound was.

Bedtime for Bonzo. More minds to corrupt on the morrow. Take care all.

Nite, DrDick.

I’m out too, see y’all.

b excellent.

Quite possibly. That or you broke whoever’s hand you were holding at the time.

nite doctor

i was trying to understand the nature of the selective pressure if health issues related to pelvic structure were not an issue for reproductive potential.

sorry to hear that ratfood.

Perhaps all of this has come together at the perfect time. This is our opportunity to begin living in a humanistic green society. The rethugs have demonstrated how badly things can go wrong when profit and greed are accepted has prime motivators. The problems are huge and it could tip either way. The populous movement is getting stronger and people truly are waking up. I think they were afraid of Bushco. Now that the evil doers are out of office we can focus on what is really important. Survival and learning to thrive through cooperation.

The pelvic opening cannot get any bigger or those problems would become a serious problem for everyone, inhibiting our ability to function and survive. The fetal head consequently cannot get any bigger without killing too many women in childbirth, leading to extinction as well (have to have at least 2.3 babies per woman- with modern medicine, twice that without – just to keep the species going).

Thanks. I’ve learned to cope with that and my RA, just as long as I take my prescription meds. I’m grateful to get along as well as I do, many people are not so fortunate.

you have a great attitude and i’m glad to know you can get relief. chronic pain sucks.

thanks. and good night.

I am going to be seriously angry if Ruth Madoff is not busted for aiding and abetting fraud or living off the proceeds of crime or something. His sons too. There is no way I buy this crap that he only just told them before it came apart and that one of them turned him in. These people are not rubes, none of them. They had to know all along what he was doing. So likely did some number of his employees.