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Vajra

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last updated 08/12/08
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Want To Understand The Economic Trainwreck? (blog entry) Michael Greenberger who was a federal regulator the head of the Commodities Trading Futures Commission's Trading and Markets Division during the 90s explains the general shape of the current financial market mess in these two programs from Terry... read more
blog entry posted Thu, September 18, 2008 - 9:24 AM permalink - 3 comments
Falling Man (blog entry) I'm not sure why. I rarely read serious fiction--at least nor unless it's serious science fiction--but I recently picked up and read Falling Man by Don DeLillo. The Falling Man of the title refers to the people who fell to their deaths from the t... read more
blog entry posted Tue, August 12, 2008 - 11:46 PM permalink - 2 comments
Broken Octologue (blog entry) Broken Octologue

Lost at home.
Thoughts ground to sand grains.
I would weep
If tears came.
Deserted
In that sea of sand
I made from
thoughts of you.

I came accross this just today. I wrote it a few years back in a different time and p... read more
blog entry posted Fri, April 18, 2008 - 3:42 PM permalink - 8 comments
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Michael Greenberger who was a federal regulator the head of the Commodities Trading Futures Commission's Trading and Markets Division during the 90s explains the general shape of the current financial market mess in these two programs from Terry Gross' Fresh Air:

Our Confusing Economy, Explained was broadcast in April after the large brokerage Bear Stearns collapsed:

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php

And Could Wall Street Woes Set Off A Global Crisis was... read more
Thu, September 18, 2008 - 9:24 AM permalink - 3 comments
 
I'm not sure why. I rarely read serious fiction--at least nor unless it's serious science fiction--but I recently picked up and read Falling Man by Don DeLillo. The Falling Man of the title refers to the people who fell to their deaths from the towers and a performance artist in the story who dressed in business clothes jumps from buildings with a harness on and assumes the position seen in the famous series of pictures of the man falling from the North Tower on 9/11 by Richard Drew.

Some... read more
Tue, August 12, 2008 - 11:46 PM permalink - 2 comments
 
Broken Octologue

Lost at home.
Thoughts ground to sand grains.
I would weep
If tears came.
Deserted
In that sea of sand
I made from
thoughts of you.

I came accross this just today. I wrote it a few years back in a different time and place but I still like it and felt like sharing.
Fri, April 18, 2008 - 3:42 PM permalink - 8 comments
 
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