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<blockquote data-quote="altgeld88" data-source="post: 2037592" data-attributes="member: 2886"><p><em>Lehman Trilogy</em>. A history of the now-defunct investment bank. It's even worse than it sounds. Actually, a somewhat engaging immigrant story from 1840s to WW I. Then it's an hour+ of sheer cringe. I haven't been this embarrassed for adults on stage since the last time I saw Kevin Willard on the sideline for Maryland. (So... Wednesday.) It's a problem when someone who believes fervently in Marx's vacuous and utterly discredited labor theory of value, obviously never studied even rudimentary economics, and has no grasp of human nature, tries to hold forth for three hours on the alleged evil of free association and trade, paid for by a group of the most economically productive humans ever to walk the earth. There's a further discourse on the tip of my tongue regarding masochism and the appeal of a politics of envy and resentment to the well-heeled classes; however, I'm wary even of having written the foregoing here in a postgame thread so I'll repair to my coffee and spare everyone further boredom.</p><p></p><p>Its obvious from its 20th century track record that Marxism has neither soul nor wit. I learned yesterday, at the loss of 3 hrs 30 mins of my life, that, unsurprisingly, it lacks brevity, too. So 0-for-3 there.</p><p></p><p>The funniest part was that during the second intermission, as the theatre is directly across the street from the Capital One Arena, we watched through the four-story glass windows as a traffic cop ticketed every single car parked along the street. The ACC title game was played there last night and I guess that was a no-parking zone from around 4 p.m. Anyway, I stood there as he ticketed windshield after windshield and thought: "Well, this afternoon actually could be worse."</p><p></p><p>Listen, I just want to forget it all. I'm looking forward to the first half of <em>B1G Basketball in 60</em> at 2 p.m. ET today so I can cleanse my palate with the relatively pleasant first 22 mins of the Nebraska-Illini game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="altgeld88, post: 2037592, member: 2886"] [I]Lehman Trilogy[/I]. A history of the now-defunct investment bank. It's even worse than it sounds. Actually, a somewhat engaging immigrant story from 1840s to WW I. Then it's an hour+ of sheer cringe. I haven't been this embarrassed for adults on stage since the last time I saw Kevin Willard on the sideline for Maryland. (So... Wednesday.) It's a problem when someone who believes fervently in Marx's vacuous and utterly discredited labor theory of value, obviously never studied even rudimentary economics, and has no grasp of human nature, tries to hold forth for three hours on the alleged evil of free association and trade, paid for by a group of the most economically productive humans ever to walk the earth. There's a further discourse on the tip of my tongue regarding masochism and the appeal of a politics of envy and resentment to the well-heeled classes; however, I'm wary even of having written the foregoing here in a postgame thread so I'll repair to my coffee and spare everyone further boredom. Its obvious from its 20th century track record that Marxism has neither soul nor wit. I learned yesterday, at the loss of 3 hrs 30 mins of my life, that, unsurprisingly, it lacks brevity, too. So 0-for-3 there. The funniest part was that during the second intermission, as the theatre is directly across the street from the Capital One Arena, we watched through the four-story glass windows as a traffic cop ticketed every single car parked along the street. The ACC title game was played there last night and I guess that was a no-parking zone from around 4 p.m. Anyway, I stood there as he ticketed windshield after windshield and thought: "Well, this afternoon actually could be worse." Listen, I just want to forget it all. I'm looking forward to the first half of [I]B1G Basketball in 60[/I] at 2 p.m. ET today so I can cleanse my palate with the relatively pleasant first 22 mins of the Nebraska-Illini game. [/QUOTE]
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