The Misanthropic Humanist: A "Daily" Short

25 April 2009

A "Daily" Short

By saving bad banks and "spreading the impact", or misery, responsibility, burden, or however else you want to put it, we have also spread the lack of market confidence. Six months ago we had good banks and bad banks. We had justifiably lost confidence is some (CITI), but maintained our faith in others (Wells Fargo). Now that the government has stepped in to "help" the banks all look weak, and the DOW is around 8,000. Why be different and responsible if there is nothing to be gained?

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Why all the names?

So, why all the pseudonyms? Well, in the first place, this is a political site, and my job just isn't conducive to public opinions about our national leaders. That'll likely change in a year or two when I hope to start my own business, but until then it's probably a good idea to not advertise who I am. As for why there are three names (moral hedonist, misanthropic humanist, and constantine magildahyde...) well, there are three different explanations. I'd like the whole thing to be the Misanthropic Humanist, but that address was already taken. Moral Hedonist is more descriptive of who I am, rather than the misanthropic humanist which is a world-view. Constantine Magildahyde is just what happened one day when I tried to get a good email address with my real first and last name and it said that was already taken. Well, I can't tell you what that is yet, but for now you'll have to take my word for it that there's no possible way. So anyway, I got mad and typed in the weirdest name I could think of. Unfortunately that worked, and it's been my email address for years.

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