Wednesday, July 02, 2008

GOOD NEWS: INGRID BETANCOURT HAS BEEN RESCUED

Amazing news! Ingrid Betancourt has been rescued! I happen to know her niece, so I guess I’ve been watching this story more than most Americans.

This is big. Hooray!

2 comments:

Bruce said...

Any interest?


http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/07/calling-for-guest-bloggers.html

Roger Gathmann said...

ah, bruce, how flattering! However, Yves needs some intelligent trader type, not me, a poor but amused bystander. She should try to get James Grant to do it for fun. The uber bear whose season has come - Grant has been bitching and moaning about the easy credit regime since the early nineties.

on Cocteau and Maurice Sachs and the twenties

  « …. the fervor without which youth is hardly worth being lived….” – in this phrase, Maurice Sachs sums up what he felt for Jean Cocteau ...