Word of the day

(Via The Big Picture)

Clive Thompson gives us a word for our times:

Agnotology: Culturally constructed ignorance, purposefully created by special interest groups working hard to create confusion and suppress the truth.

It's probably a cliche by now...

...but for my money this is the quote of the financial crisis:

The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One

They oughta put that in marble letters in front of the SEC headquarters.

(Via CJR's The Audit which nabbed another one about a regulator who wasn't asleep - they were awake and busily helping a bank disguise their bad balance sheet.)

Happy Holidays!

Suffering succotash...

Okay, here's my quote of the day:

“You want a dark, Goth version of Tweety Bird? Have at it,” said Lisa Gregorian, executive vice president for worldwide marketing at Warner Brothers Television.

(Via NYT)

She's referring to a KidsWB.com an website that will allow people to customize the appearance of Looney Toons characters - to what end I'm not entirely sure - but if I could make a goth Tweety, I'm sure I would find a use for it.