evolution

My head is full of fog and bond valuation formulas and hedging strategies and annuity formulas and fog and 2-year deferred 1-year forward rates and stock option formulas and fog, but any day in which the execrable Fred Phelps and family are down $11 million is a good one.

Ahh… Maddox. The Web site I wish I could write.

1. She Wants Revenge (song: These Things)
2. Jethro Tull (song: Locomotive Breath)
3. Pluxus (song: ? – they’re a Norwegian band)
4. Cake (song: Rock & Roll Lifestyle)
5. Peter Bjorn and John (song: Amsterdam)
6. Interpol (song: The Heinrich Maneuver)
7. Johnny Cash (song: A Boy Named Sue)
8. Bright Eyes (song: When the Brakeman Comes My Way)
9. Editors (song: All Sparks)
10. Wilco (song: Impossible Germany)
11. The Killers (song: Shadowplay)
12. Arcade Fire (song: Intervention)
13. The MC5 (song: Kick out the Jams)
14. The White Stripes (song: Conquest)
15. Fountains of Wayne (song: Leave the Biker)
16. Depeche Mode (song: Stripped)
17. Hum (song: Suicide Machine)
18. The Hold Steady (song: Stuck Between Stations)
19. Beirut (song: Postcards from Italy)
20. Placebo (song: Meds)

… well. (For my brother, who taught English in Japan.)

To the girl in the “police officer” costume, replete with short skirt and knee-high boots, in Vermont Street BBQ tonight: I love you.

That’s probably all I’ve got until after the test. But I’m feeling my usual ornery and alienated self, so I’m sure I’ll have some more things to say then.

Bill on why executive power really expands, and why it isn’t going to contract. And why I laugh contemptuously at people who think it will.