Behind the Bastards

He told Reuters the idea of writing a book finally seemed possible.

I thought I can do this.

Unfortunately, the book he put out is...

Why is that so funny? I can do this by not actually doing it.

Oh, it's a guide to financial literacy through the eyes of Sammy the Squirrel.

The Dalton's and the James boys were raised by strong defiant mothers who made sure they knew how to use a weapon and fight for what they wanted.

Members of the Barker Karpis gang who were close to Ma generally kept the women they were seriously involved with away from her. It was a crazy system Alvin admitted years later and often created friction with our women who couldn't understand why we were so careful with her feelings.

Bank robberies beneath our dignity, she said bigger game is in our future.

Although it was a trying experience, I was treated with the utmost respect and courtesy.

Now you're thinking boys, now you're thinking.

The other one that I really like is Cindy Milstein's Anarchism and Its Aspirations.

go to Amazon dot com and look up Cool Zones Media. Cool Zone Media is home electrician's guide. It's six pages long.

It's everything you need to know about doing electrical work. You'll be as as skilled as a licensed journeyman electrician. If you if you read this book, it includes such bangers as you don't need to wear gloves and metal conducts electricity.

Here's just one example culled from David Newart's excellent book And Hell Followed With Her.

sterner wrote a book called The ego and his own

Max sterner's individualist anarchism is a way to overcome the horrors of the modern state he envisions a union of rational egoists in a society that does not need a ruler the community of rational egoists is a universal commercial society in fact the more a society is based on voluntary exchange the less right it is and thus less effective the force individualist anarchism carries its purpose in itself and does not serve a higher end the rational egoist will respect the what rights of others because he respects himself he will not be violent because he does not want to be attacked this attitude of the individual anarchist stands in sharp contrast to the destructive role of the collectivist entities individual egoism is the answer to the egoism of the collectives

sterner wrote my cause is neither the divine nor the human it is not the true the good the right the free etc but only mine and it is not universal but is unique like me as I am only I nothing goes beyond me and myself

He's talking about - this guy named Karl Popper who is like a philosopher of science who also wrote this book called The Open Society that we'll talk about next episode more. Popper's philosophy made me more sensitive to the role of misconceptions in financial markets, Soros said decades later.

People believe that markets don't lie and should be trusted but that isn't true, Soros knew. Markets react to humans and humans are fallible.

Instead of looking at the money being made or as Sebastian Malaby put it in More Money Than God, his book on the history of hedge funds, the psychology that drove investors' appetites, Soros looked at how one impacted the other, predicting that each would drive the other forward until the trust were so completely overvalued that a crash was inevitable.

It was a debate we had, Jones told me. We'd gone to work in Asia and here you are taking large-scale short positions in countries with institutional fragility. Going for the jugular in the United Kingdom was one thing. Doing the same in Thailand was another.

The Bank of England would surely recover. Thailand was a developing economy and it was unclear what impact outside investors could have. Soros has justified speculation with the idea that it could serve as a kind of warning to governments.

Instead of looking at the money being made or as Sebastian Malaby put it in More Money Than God, his book on the history of hedge funds, the psychology that drove investors' appetites, Soros looked at how one impacted the other, predicting that each would drive the other forward until the trust were so completely overvalued that a crash was inevitable.

I found a documentary. There's a documentary came out in 2018 by Bill Simmons, just titled Andre the Giant.

When his career was over, he had no value, you know, to himself.

No longer am I going to be around the boys and socializing and things of that nature, I'm stuck here in North Carolina.

And I was responsible for the fact that business was good and everybody else was going on about it.

I'm very more or less wanted to blame me, you know, and presented me a bit because he knew the business was going to go on about him.

And I'm going to quote now from a book called 'Death of the Territories' by Tim Hornbaker.

The central idea was to build up a succession of threatening challengers for Sammartino.

If you are a huge wrestling nerd and you want forensic detail about how this went, the book 'Death of the Territories' is the best resource by a mile.

The book Sex, Lies and Headlocks alleges that a source close to the McMahons tipped them off that this has happened.

One of Vince's bodybuilders later claimed we all had our connections on the streets. If you were smart, you could get around the test. The ones who could afford it just moved on to human growth hormones taken from human cadavers, which was the latest thing. I wasn't worried.

Anarchism and the Black Revolution was written in prison.

He emphasized that anarchism is the most democratic, effective, and radical way to obtain freedom for the Black community.

The first edition of Anarchism and the Black Revolution was published quite a while ago. It's still the edition that is available in the anarchist library which you can check out.

But it is, I would consider it to be a sort of rough early edition. There are certainly some typos and editorial mistakes and stuff that were addressed in the most recent edition that was published in I believe 2021.

And edited with some help from William C. Anderson, who also is another leading figure in the modern Black anarchist movement, having written works like Nation on No Map.

If you are a Muslim, please put this book down. We do not wish you to become a killer because this book leads you to understand the doctrines and history of Islam more thoroughly.

And by the way, you have no retirement and zero retirement. Absolutely no benefits whatsoever. Your retirement is dying at 37. Yeah, that's your pension is you're not going to make it to 50. You're securing the knowledge that you're like, I mean, we're already mad. It's tragedy.

And also, you know, but Jose Canseco's book Juice. He's got some tips on how to use travel to the future. Do it.

When she died later that day, Graham showed up at the hospital with his 12 year old son wielding a hunting knife and a sawed off shotgun. A tearful Graham shoved down a nurse and tossed a security guard across a hallway, hoisting his dead mother's body off a gurney and draping it over his shoulder.