There’s a pork shoulder within the slow cooker that’s rubbed in spices, with bacon draped upon it, and Red Chair Pale Ale bubbling and simmering around it. We just came back from enjoying a wonderful brunch in the sun and are getting ready to take the dogs for a walk, so that they may enjoy the weather too. This is all in preparation for a great meeting of the minds later; the Dr, Mr Cardan, and “What’s a Short?,” will all be in attendance. The main focus, of course, will be tonight’s UFC fight card headlined by not only the first women’s championship fight, but the first ever women’s fight in the UFC. How I feel about women fighting is a whole ‘nother post in itself, so I will refrain from such a digression. One of the topics I want to bring up with the ladies and gents tonight, is that fact that life is not fair.

What do I mean by that? Well, I have had to get fingerprinted twice recently, without having committed any crime. Once whilst getting  a $12,000 cashier’s check, and the other whilst starting to file my compliance documents for membership with FINRA. Now I haven’t ever committed any white collared crimes, yet am treated as though it is a great possibility that I will. I believe the inverse to be people like Corzine, Dimon, and whoever thought it was a good idea to lend sub prime loans, then securitize them. These folks just laugh through life, ashing their Cubans on their servants heads, letting money disappear, and just shrugging their shoulders at their clients. They laugh at those who are working hard to climb the ladder below them, being quick to throw them under the bus, while being seemingly untouchable themselves.

I guess that is how the caviar crumbles in this world, but there has to be some sort of solution to get where they are, without being unethical, sociopathic, ingrates. If you don’t think Corzine is an ungrateful sociopath, examine this, he brought Goldman back from the brink and convinced everyone to let the company go public, making $400 million dollars, then became a democratic senator. This is of course after co-chairman Henry Paulson, basically pushed him out, as the two hated each other  You’d think at Goldman there would be plenty of room for megalomaniacs, but there wasn’t. Continuing in politics, a perfect fit for someone of his nature, he became the governor of NJ. With his ego hurt after losing a third term reelection to Chris Christie, he got back into the finance business, becoming the CEO of MF Global. The firm then lost $1.6 billion of customer money, and ol’ Johnny boy went in front of congress and said he had no idea where it was. Though, all signs point to him advising MF to use client’s funds to cover the company before it went bankrupt.

I could go on to analyze how his wife of 33 years, his highschool sweetheart, and mother of his children, thinks he has let his family down, but I don’t think I need to. Life is unfair, unless you have the money and connections to make it easy. This is what we will be discussing tonight, how to get as rich as possible without doing anything illegal, in the least amount of time. I can’t wait, and I also can’t wait to tell my buddy that I chose GILD as my March Madness pick.

Adieu

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