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Fat Cult - September 2008

The Sydney Morning Herald knows what to cover when the market is crashing

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On September 18, last Thursday, the financial world was rocked by a series of upsetting announcements... trading was suspended in Russia as the country faced the worst stock market decline in 10 years.

Closer to home, the SEC banned short selling, and the US government decided to stop playing the no-regulation card, pumping billions of dollars into the battered market.

Even closer to home, the Australian market, a little slower to respond, lost $34 billion in a single day, falling 3.5% and tipping fears that the economy might slide into a deep, dark recession.


How are we supposed to know about these events? Well, we have newspapers and media for this reason, and there is no newspaper, arguably, that is more reputable than the Sydney Morning Herald, a staple across Sydney.

On that day, this was the front page of the SMH website:

Sydney Morning Herald shows Dita Von Teese in lingerie instead of news


Woo hoo! Boobies! Yeah, yeah, yeeeaaaah!

While Ms. Von Teese is a very sexy lady and I always enjoy looking at her curvy figure, the Sydney Morning Herald apparently decided that a minor story about Von Teese complaining about her colleagues was much more important than Australian jobs and investments potentially going under.


Other news items that carry as much weight as the possibility that your superannuation funds might lose value, or that jobs might be lost in Australia, are:

- an MP complaining about stroganoff
- a Rugby League playing tackling a bar manager in a bar
- a Melbourne pub criticized for hiring a dwarf

Enjoy your daily news, Australia!
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Making America Stupid!

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It's not my title, but the title of this opinion piece from the NY Times by Thomas Friedman.

Friedman thinks it's ridiculous that the Republican Party is enthusiastically supporting the idea of drilling for more oil, a search for energy independence that delights Americans with the slogan of 'Drill Baby Drill


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White Dudes can dance

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Steve Harvey Collection

This is an old clip, but still worthy of a hearty bellylaugh. This trombone player got up on stage on the Steve Harvey show, and busted out some choice moves. I don't know whether I should recoil in horror or laugh and get on up. Tear the roof off the sucka!

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