Things that make you laugh

We are going through a phase of puritanical panic in this country and one of the manifestations of it is a push against drinking. Minimum unit price for alcohol has been passed into law here: and last week some research body or other told us that we need to limit consumption to three small glasses of wine a week if we are to stay healthy. So this made me laugh

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/health/...y-2012060729650

JP Morgan lost more than a billion dollars through bad speculations. Their chair appeared before a senate committee today and he said it was a "black mark" against the bank. He said it arose because the traders "did not understand the risks they were taking". Um....well I suppose it is comforting to know they weren't trying to do this, but I am not quite clear why they got the big bucks....and I am certainly not sure why he does if that is the best he can do. "Black mark"? Did he do anything after primary school at all?

Susan Rice, Managing Director of Lloyds Banking Group in Scotland:

"Banking is nothing if it is not about trust"

Another comment on banking, this time from someone talking about the interest rate rigging at Barclays: I did not catch his name but the commentator said

"this was an institutionalised misunderstanding of integrity"

http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2012...ter-dictionary/

Made me laugh in a scared sort of way ..

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/20..._on_g_word.html

The American Family Association refuses to use the word gay. It has software so that the word is automatically replaced in its publications.

Tyson Gay qualified for the Olympics. This was reported by AFA as


I wonder if he can sue.....

Didn't know that. Made me laugh anyway

www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/opinion/...1&smid=tw-share

The real Mitt Romney

You all remember the US candidate for the senate, Todd Akin, saying that women can't get pregnant from rape? Well apparently in 2008 he said that women are getting abortions when they are not pregnant. I think perhaps this man is "pure" in the sense that he does not know the facts of life.....

He is running equal to his opponent, according to the polls...

http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/rwanda...nteers-2012-11/

It is a kind of sick laugh: but it is a laugh....

Jason John Whitehead ‏@JJWhitesnake
Only America has poor people who think universal healthcare is bad because it'll cost them too much when they're rich


A comment I saw on twitter: it explains a lot....

Unlearning Economics's view on mainstream economic theory

https://twitter.com/westendproducer/status...6758912/photo/1

This made someone on twitter laugh: and it made me laugh too.

https://i.imgur.com/A5lHnC0.jpg

I think this is very, very funny.