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A documentary film is going to be made about the book “Freakonomics”. The problem is that the film won’t be made by one able and focused director —but rather by a bunch of folks, whose implication in the whole project will be ultra minimal. The expected result of that idiocy is that their documentary will be an uninteresting mosaic of short and superficial takes, and will surely tank at the box office, like all the Paris Hilton movies did. The Hollywood Stock Exchange traders are no idiots: they are sensing that that Freakonomics project is a stinking lemon, and they are selling the event derivative like it is bubonic plague.

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- The “esteemed” economists are lining up, trying to second-guess the HSX traders, jotting down their favorite hypothesis about the possible reason for the upcoming disaster —but all smart that they are, they can’t see the obvious: THE FREAKONOMICS DOCUMENTARY … Continue reading →

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Devoting the whole NBC Nightly News bulletin to Tim Russert’s passing was worst than beaming out porn.

Posted on June 14, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

John Cole: Let’s Get Something Straight By: John Cole June 13, 2008 at 6:35 pm I liked Tim Russert, even though I thought his BS gotcha nonsense was thorough idiocy and not helping the debate at all. He was a … Continue reading →

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