It was meant to be an amusing way to finesse the Dan Hess remark into sublime humour (which obviously failed, but I was laughing)

It was supposed to convey that sometimes, when you are only looking for the one thing (details/truffles) you miss out on the important stuff. EG: On the not so funny side, the pilots who are focused on the faulty instrument as the plane slams into the side of a mountain.

So I apologize if you felt that i was going there when wasn’t, but not for the sounds like ‘sour grapes.’ That I meant=)

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2008/0 2/lost-note-affidavits-skeletons-in.html

As a bonus it even comes with an intelligent commentary, just to show what a competent and knowledgeable person can do.

Just like Ms Smith with her article in the NYT, where like Ms Morgensen, she links to research that simply doesn’t say what she says it does:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/opinio n/31smith.html

First paragraph:

“For instance, the International Monetary Fund found that the persistently high unemployment in the United States is largely the result of foreclosures and underwater mortgages, rather than widely cited causes like mismatches between job requirements and worker skills.” Except it doesn’t. The kindest thing you can say is that it says that the housing crisis is another contributing factor and so she is misreading what is written there. A less kind view is she is deliberately misrepresenting the statements in the paper.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/ 2010/cr10248.pdf

Relevent pages are 5-15.

As for you, still waiting for those flood of CDO related SEC cases that you claimed ABACUS case was all about.

In other words, perhaps the chauvenist pigs are only digging for truffles.

Danny Black, you spend more time telling people they are ‘wrong’ and that you are ‘right’ with no evidence to back that up, then adding to the conversation. Are you a lawyer by chance?

“I was not entertained by some the most important timely breaking news by a Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist, so I mostly ignored it.”

I give you credit for publicly admitting it, but geez, Justin — that ain’t pretty.