What is the value of, say, the “To be, or not to be” soliloquy from Hamlet - when Franco Zeffirelli, Mel Gibson and Glenn Close are the real value-adds of your production? And seriously – Alicia Silverstone vs. Jane Austen? One merely jotted down some words – the other uses vast creativity to interpret them. And which came first – the sublime acting of John Travolta, or the brilliance of L. Ron Hubbard? You ask yourself – who am I to say?

I work for money managers. (I see you yawning, VwS, I’m still looking for boob pics of Meredith Whitney!). If you thought the SEC not catching Madoff was bad, commence laughing or crying now – because he was blatantly obvious. Had a trained monkey followed up on contradictory statements the SEC themselves noted in that 477-page mea culpa – he would have been caught. That they didn’t catch him means the rest of the asset management world quietly carries on cutting corners.