"But even before Thursday’s vitriolic statements from North Korea, American officials said they were more focused for now on inflicting pain on Pyongyang than on luring it back to the bargaining table."

-- New York Times "Clinton Trades Gibes With North Korea"

Entschuldigung [places briefcase under table]...

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/north_korean_cy.html

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My letter to the New York Times, surely never to be published:

"There is a constant post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy in business and financial reporting. Specifically, I am referring to assigning causation to articles and publications written about business and financial topics. Consider an example from today's edition: "Markets Fall ( Read more... )

Just as Waiting For Godot is an artistic accounting of the ambiguities and uncertainties of life in occupied France, "It's A Good Life" is a depiction of Stalinism, as perceived by Americans during the Cold War.

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