Unfinished Business is a surprisingly good read. I forget who the author is, and can't be arsed finding the book, but it was about Paul Keating and things like the SGC.

Read a story, in TIME I think, where someone made an offhand comment about how Adam Smith's "invisible hand" has been slapped with the GFC and all. My thought is that perhaps the invisible hand is the one doing the slapping.

Dad complained about how schwelmer (my current beer of choice) was stacked as a dutch beer, not german. The theory that then came out was that shelf stackers are idiots. Likely, but I have a new preferred theory. What if the shelf stackers have a really advanced sense of humour, and we just don't get the joke?