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- 07-15-2008
- At the Airport By Tom Bradley
- 05-01-2008
- Building the Perfect Weapon By Thomas Sullivan
- 04-01-2008
- CNBC Wins Pequod Institute Award for Excellence in High School Journalism By Pig Bodine, M.Sc., Ph.D., BM2, BEM, MAD, MDMA
- 03-01-2008
- Pig Bodine's Funky Financial Cooze Network Topological Finance for Aging Bald Dudes By Pig Bodine, M.Sc., Ph.D., BM2, BEM, MAD, MDMA
- 12-01-2007
- Un Mensaje Navideño del Director General Por Sandra Ramos Rossi
- Christmas Parades are a Deadly Derangement of Culture and other Seasonal Asides by Kane X. Faucher
- 11-01-2007
- Euphotan, Protoplasmic Flash, and their Properties by Nail, with commentary by Chevy the Scientist
- 10-01-2007
- Suggested reading, Universitatis Merdalina Literature 734.5, Advanced Topics in Mathematical Literature: Pseudo-British/American/Pidgin English Literature, Tensor Products of Novels and Poetry for Quasi-Conformal Plagiarism in Modern Genre and its Relationship to Sexual Identity and Morphisms by Maurice Stoker
- 08-01-2007
- The Unexamined Life in Hell: Peregrinations Across The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman by Maurice Stoker
- 06-01-2007
- Presidential Politics in the Year of the Toad by Boozer Allan Hamilton Ph.D.
- 04-01-2007
- An Eleventh Tonkin Scenario by Donald Dickerson
- 03-01-2007
- The Second Annual Howard Littlefield Boosterism Award for Economic Forecasting Awarded to Boozer Allan Hamilton by Pig Bodine, M.Sc., Ph.D., BM2, BEM, MAD, MDMA
- 12-01-2006
- Maurice Stoker On Writing a Prize Winning Best Seller by Maurice Stoker
- 11-01-2006
- ¿Study says lack of talent? by Pig Bodine M.S., Ph.D., BM2, BEM, MAD, MDMA
- 08-01-2006
- US Cracks International Terrorist Ring by Maurice Stoker
- 06-01-2006
- Pig Bodine Solves the US Immigration and Education Dilemmas in One Blow by Pig Bodine M.S., Ph.D., BM2, BEM, MAD, MDMA
- 05-01-2006
- Maurice Stoker Anent Two Errors in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason and Dixon by Maurice Stoker
- Full PAM Archive
- At the Airport
- By Tom Bradley. There was no ready explanation for such a star's presence anywhere near our hopelessly benighted corner of the continent. It's not like our cow-shitty airstrip was a hub for Delta Airlines or anything. I was surprised to see no entourage fawning and fussing over this National Book Award winner. I was also curious as to why he wasn't scarfing the camembert hors d'oeuvres and champagne in the newly-built VIP Lounge, which would be otherwise deserted but for the members of the local Uncompahgre tribe, who'd recently gotten filthy rich building casinos on their reservation. more...
- CNBC Wins Pequod Institute Award for Excellence in High School Journalism
- By Pig Bodine, M.Sc., Ph.D., BM2, BEM, MAD, MDMA. This year's awardee is CNBC for their business day programming. This has led to some carping, as expected given the budget of network productions which only a handful of high schools are able to match. Notably, once again Palo Alto High School representatives complained that since the internet bubble deflated they have suffered more draconian budget cuts than NBC. Of course, this reflects the reality that overall the US stock markets never did return to their highs, most notably the embarrassing NASDAQ, with the S&P 500 just barely making it back before retreating.
- One pundit noted that perhaps the award was based more on nostalgia than accomplishment as the judges transported back to their own high school days, particularly given the cast of prom characters from king and queen to chaperones, plain Janes, and generally smiling, frothy, empty bobbleheads. Not to mention the advertisements with the likes of Sam Waterson describing software allowing individual traders to lose money automatically buying high and selling low based on models they don't understand, as well as hysterical former hippie Dennis Hopper ranting that it is possible by careful planning to live more extravagantly in retirement than one ever lived while working. more...
- Presidential Politics in the Year of the Toad
- By Boozer Allan Hamilton Ph.D.. Not BAH's intention, and in fact against policy within confines of this seldom-read online rag and its so-called publishers, to extol political candidates. But in approaching farce of ostentatious display of ceremonially choosing President of US from cloned cluster of group-thinking insiders, a particularly creepy lot of mental midgets vetted by corporate overlords for presentation to voters emerges. Ought be reconsidered carefully before pulling levers, pushing buttons or marking Xs as mainstream candidates represent finalization of imperial power. Right-thinking voters ought look to fringe candidates, those already marginalized by corporate media in grip of holy saintliness of US-British-Israeli axis of evil. more...
- The Second Annual Howard Littlefield Award for Putting the Con in Economics Awarded to Boozer Allan Hamilton
- By Pig Bodine, M.Sc., Ph.D., BM2, BEM, MAD, MDMA. For years I have been in awe of Allan Hamilton; an unappreciated genius laboring in the trenches. He presents papers at conferences to choruses of boos, Bronx cheers and profanity as if he were an academic version of Karen Findley. Of course, his theatricality is not the norm in the staid world of econometrics and economic forecasting, but his grasp of the fine points of semimartingales on tensor products of Hilbert and Banach manifolds as models for economic activity, home to nonlinear filters and predictors as the basis for his methods of building economic indicators and performing statistical inference on semimartingales, has put him decades, nay centuries ahead of his colleagues in predicting economic behavior. I use the word predict versus forecast because he predicts with the precision of one working in celestial mechanics. more...