… reports Market Watch.
(By the way, note that my earlier Strauss-Kahn post, titled Maid in…, has been updated quite a bit over the course of today.)
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Update: David, a reader, sends UD this headline from BoingBoing:
AMID GLOBAL RECESSION, NEW IMF STRATEGY:
RAPING COMMONERS ONE AT A TIME
And as to immunity:
“Acts immunity only covers actions taken in the course of his duties. Coming out of your bathroom stark naked and attacking a chambermaid probably doesn’t qualify,” Kurt Taylor Gaubatz, an associate professor in the Graduate Program in International Studies at Old Dominion University, wrote in a blog post on Sunday.
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A poem to go with the Strauss-Kahn story.
THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT (129)
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight;
Past reason hunted and no sooner had,
Past reason hated as a swallowed bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad:
Mad in pursuit, and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:32AM
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