(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
Adam Thornton
adam at io.com
Wed Mar 18 11:50:31 PDT 2009
On Mar 18, 2009, at 1:46 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>>
>> Bernie Madoff always struck me as a rather smart man.
>
> Use of past tense noted.
>
> He wasn't smart enough not to get involved in a Ponzi scheme.
The decades of the Good Life might be worth the last few years on the
inside. It's at least plausible that it's a rational trade. Was he
dumb? That's for him to say.
Or, hey, take the "late" Ken Lay. I mean, even if he actually *is*
dead: a bunch of years being really really rich. And then, at worst,
an early exit. How tragic. At best, he's drinking margaritas on a
beach someplace tropical, laughing at all the rest of us.
Adam
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