Didactic SynCast #72: Swimming Naked

This week we talk about Warren Buffet swimming naked. WOOO! Also: EPMD and Clint Eastwood. Enjoy.

DS #72: Swimming Naked

Top 3 Links of the Week

• A different justice: Why Anders Breivik only got 21 years for killing 77 people
• Shirley Sherrod on Smiley & West
• Tony Danza: What I learned teaching your kids

Current Events

• Rachel Corrie’s death was an accident, Israeli judge rules
• Rachel Corrie verdict exposes Israeli military mindset
• NYT on Breivik
• Debbie Morris: Forgiving the Dead Man Walking
• Stephen King: Tax me, for f#@% sake
• Ohio miners say they were forced to attend Romney rally

Economics

• Reagan-appointed judge: Deregulation advocates made a fundamental mistake
• Greenspan’s “flaw”
• Barclays makes £500m betting on food crisis
• Ex-stock broker: I realized that most of what I did was bad for clients — so I quit
• The Reformed Broker blog
• Greed and debt: The true story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
• The Daily Show: Mitt Romney: A Human Being Who Built That

Education

• Maggie Gyllenhaal harbors high hopes for public education
• “No excuses” and the culture of shame

Killer Robots, Etc

• Vote for Robot Hall of Fame
• Merging the biological, electronic
• Ode on a digital boom-bap

Hip-Hop

EPMD: “Strictly Business”