• Who's more scared right now, the bulls or the bears?
  
  
• Is there anything particularly magical about the $150 level in Goldman (GS)?
  
  
• Do you think Hammerin' Hank is happy he sold his holdings (tax free) when he started signing dollar bills?
  
  
• If I started a club called Narcissist’s Now, would I be the only member?
  
  
• If the "higher dollar, lower asset classes" secular shift is upon us, is the potential scoot to S&P 1330-1350 the cutesy dancing between the elephants trade?
  
  
• Is $23 to Merrill (MER) what $18 was for Countrywide Financial?
  
  
• Remember how excited people got on that convertible preferred offering in Countrywide?
  
  
• Has anyone noticed that the choking posters at restaurants look a lot like a Kama Sutra manual?
  
  
• VXO 22—summer doldrums or the world’s most complacent market?
  
  
• Old School Minyans, remember back in 2003 when we offered that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy?
  
  
• Just reminding you... why, you don't care?
  
  
• Have you read Pep's fabu primer on Stagflation yet?
  
  
• Do you think post-knee surgery over-compensation has anything to do with the sharp, shooting pain in my lower back?
  
  
• Why does Jeff Spicoli pop in my head when I even think about taking something for the pain during the trading day?
  
  
• What if this is as good as it gets?
  
  
• Are you getting bullish on upticks and bearish on downticks?
  
  
• Have YOU ever read the MV backstory of the Wall Street bull and bear?
  
  
• If I told you at the beginning of last year—when crude was at $50—that it would be close to $150 eighteen months later, where would you have guessed the S&P would be?
  
  
• So I'll ask you—if crude is at $80 six months from now, where do you think the S&P will be?
  
  
• Can you say "Tuesday tofu tacos" five time fast without stuttering?
  
  
• Are Ottomans from the Ottoman Empire ?
  
  
• If that's true, wouldn't pole dancing have an eastern European origination?

R.P.