If I had suspected that I was being set-up for a hazing, I might have attempted to arm myself with Niall Ferguson’s "Colossus":
"Anyone who invested in the oil field engineering company Halliburton in late 2000 in the expectation that the company would benefit from a Republican election victory has been disappointed. In the three years to Nov. 2003 the company's shares declined by more than a third and did not benefit significantly from the more aggressive Middle Eastern policy supported by its friends in high places. An investor who put his money in Wal-Mart shares in late 2000 would, by contrast, have made a capital gain of a fifth."
Who would have suspected that Dick Cheney was a failed carpetbagger?
(Tip: This quote is taken from The Corner: [John Hillen])
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It's great that your little brother got to clerk for a federal justice and I hope that he found the experience rewarding, and its great that you even got a story out of his position, and thanks for sharing, but you ah, missed the point.
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