(1) When it burns, stop running. (2) Put a billfold in your mouth so you don’t bite your tongue. (3) Tie a balloon around your waist with string and roll until the balloon breaks. (4) Don’t pee on a jellyfish sting. Pour vinegar on it instead.
On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Quotation from Chuck Palahniuk
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s new Financial Stability Plan is more “bandaid” than comprehensive plan. It throws more money at financial institutions (including the ones that got us into this mess) rather than strongly supporting healthy companies (and prudent financial institutions) that provide jobs. Throwing good money after bad will continue to bankrupt us all.
Geithner Remarks on Financial Stability Plan (The Wall Street Journal Blog)
An elderly waiter with trembling hands was hurriedly spreading a pink and white checked cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: “If the lady and gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden…” I decided that if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of the fragments of the afternoon might be collected, and I concentrated my attention with careful subtlety to this end.
Poem by T.S. Eliot, Hysteria