Tag: funny

The art of the deal

hilarious and insightful.

But Trump of the book is more a-intellectual, in the same way some people are amoral or asexual. The world is taken as a given. It contains deals. Some people make the deals well, and they are winners. Other people make the deals poorly, and they are losers. Trump does not need more than this. There will be no civilization of philosopher-Trumps asking where the first deal came from, or whether a deal is a deal only by virtue of its participation in some primordial deal beyond material existence.

long lost, recently rediscovered at a yard sale: the art of the deal, the movie

The Cause of RBF

The cues are understated, yet the machine detects and interprets them the same way our human brains do. “Something in the neutral expression of the face is relaying contempt, both to the software and to us.”

i’ve been diagnosed with RBF, and the root cause is contempt. sounds about right.

Pentagon Celebrates 25 Years Of Bombing Iraq

Bringing together the many civilian leaders and military strategists who helped them reach such a historic milestone, Pentagon officials held a lavish black-tie gala Sunday at which they commemorated 25 years of the United States bombing Iraq.

Hundreds of active-duty and retired military officers, high-ranking members of the past 4 presidential administrations, and executives from top defense contractors reportedly gathered in the grand ballroom of D.C.’s Fairmont Hotel to dine, mingle, and celebrate a quarter century spent routinely dropping 1000s of tons of explosive ordnance across the Middle Eastern nation—from the Jan. 17, 1991 onset of airstrikes in the Gulf War to the current bombardment of suspected ISIS targets.

Tourist bids goodbye to NYC

The time has come for me to leave New York City. After almost 2 whole days here on business, it just feels right.

It’s hard to pinpoint when New York officially was over for me. Was it this morning in my hotel room, when I got the check-in e-mail from Delta? Or 5 minutes later, when I took a taxi to the airport?

I can still recall the moment it all began like it was yesterday, because it was yesterday. I landed at J.F.K. on a misty Friday afternoon, to attend a conference on plastic utensils. I had finally realized my childhood dream of moving to the concrete jungle, where dreams are manufactured.

Reminds me of the many visitors who confuse Manhattan with NYC, and proclaim that they could never live here based on their extensive times square experience.