The Maanga

Wealth, like other segments of the evolutionary construct, is still largely a function of chance.  Not change.

Reading idiotic opinion on the American primaries fueled one’s interest in other countries’ politics. The Russian elections were the ideal antidote. The Putin Project, which was aired on BBC’s SW service provided a reasonably lame and yet much better coverage that helped one beat Madras’ traffic and the Americanisation of stupidity[1].

Russia always makes me wonder: did not the Soviet Union supposedly achieve great results in education? Weren’t we always told that through NCERT text books? Whatever happened to all those well educated people? Surely, a country with a smart population can’t falter this long and so clumsily.

[1] — Think Amit Varma. A person who neither lives in America nor is he a citizen of that country. I don’t even think he has lived in America for a reasonable length of time in the past. And, he pretends to be obsessed with that nation’s primaries — not even the actual elections. There was an election in Meghalaya, just in case one needs perspective.

A blogger comes with a shelf life. And, when the said blogger’s chosen topic is either humor or shock, that shelf life only becomes shorter. With more serious consequences beyond.

In other words, stop reading.

Varma boy and his ilk may give several reasons which mean nothing.

The real reason is — if one has to make a cost analysis of marriage over a reasonably long period of time, one needs to know how much a woman will cost, for one night; or day. For sex, that is. If you want love, the answer lies in sexuality — not necessarily sex.

The problem with it being illegal is, there is no set price and we can’t have healthy competition decide the rate. Prostitution being illegal, I am sure, is one of the reasons why Hedge Fund Managers make horrendous mistakes and why we have a credit crunch. Greed is, after all, a result of insecurity.

Our Hedge Fund type boys always tell us, it’s much cheaper to have call girls on call than marry. And that, the best option is to lease one’s wife.

I have now figured, what the real problem is. Our Hedge Fund type boys are also Mylapore type boys who get Engels spouting NGO type chicks who wear sleeveless shirts and have armpit hair. More importantly, make sure the spouting is in the language of the original spout.

Basically, women who assume they are either equal to or better than men.

A woman who makes her father pay for her to get fucked is unlikely to spew Communist crap or have armpit hair. Let alone, be of any significant cost.

This is rather obvious. The reason this is being restated is obvious as well. But then, as in cooking, so in blogging. It’s the timing.

Sometimes a vacation at the right time can save a career. Going on holiday just before 21^st of January, I narrowly escaped the unwinding of Jerome Kerviel’s $73bn position, squaring off my positions just before 2008 became even more miserable for most traders.

Of all the people who got fooled by Kerviel, the silliest seems to be Ben Bernanke, who took a rogue trader’s position unwinding to be the final reckoning, and responded with a between-FOMC-meetings 75bp cut. He tried to brazen it out with another 50bp cut the next week, but he will now go down along with Arthur Burns as one of the stupidest Fed Chairmen ever. McCain or Clinton or Obama, please transfer this man to Guantanamo and water-board him. He has even made YV Reddy look bright in comparison.

One solution is to use points made by Russian leaders themselves. Guess who said this: “Russia is a country of legal nihilism at the level…that no European country can boast of…Corruption in the official structures has a huge scale”. That sounds as though it came from some opposition politician such as Garry Kasparov—the sort of marginal (or marginalised) figure that Russians often say gains far too much western attention. But the speaker was Dmitri Medvedev (pictured above), successor-designate to Vladimir Putin.

Or, why these pontificating types will never be successful.