Thanks for the correction Sbeetle. I had never heard of that school before.

If jerk-off bankers really think that one's school is so important, then I have no problem with Amit making fun of that mistaken idea. What's most important for me is that the satire in some way attacks the superficiality or even emptiness that leads to that kind of personality.

Satire requires saying one thing but meaning something else. It's not just taking a stereotype and exaggerating it a little bit. Ideally, one would want this kind of satire to tacitly present some kind of explanation as to why these people get so fucked up. As it stands, it's one dimensional.

This is one of the worst articles I've read online in a while. Not just because of the vapidity, or the feeble attempts at humor; the misuse of language and lack of structure is what you'd expect from a high-school student. Phrases like "it is all facilitated by one overarching fact" or "we don't work in the layman's concept of finance" are risible. I guess you could argue that Amit is imitating a banker who can't write well; but if so, it's not bad enough to be entertaining.

"Schools and banking follow the same basic patterns as all things in nature. For example, look at the most discrete element of matter: the atom. In basic orbit, the electrons of an atom cannot jump from any given energy level to another; they are restricted to the orbitals in which they belong, their ground state.

Finance operates by these same rules. Kids from middle-tier schools stay at middle-tier Banks and top-tier kids stay in the top tier. Just like no electron can hop from e1 to e5, there's no Miami of [sic] Ohio student who miraculously ends up at a top private equity firm -- that shit just doesn't happen."

Is this supposed to be a parody of a banker who has no understanding of particle physics (but thinks he does) or does that description actually apply to the author? If the former, it's not much of a joke. If the latter, it's a bit embarrassing. And is the typo also supposed to indicate a banker who can't spell?

I realize this is supposed to be parody, the "Borat of Wall Street", but parody is pointless unless it's done cleverly, and has something to say beyond mere exaggeration.

Sitcoms shot in LA that pretend they're shot in NYC

NYC: 1
LA: 1

Lol, very funny.

If you watch the video (which I recommend) she says "sweet, empathetic man".

Classical Greek, eh? Endlessly fascinating.

So... did you regret it?

Myself, I think we should remember the Eighties at least once a day.

Please watch this video for confirmation of everything Larry Sinclair says. I promise you, hand on heart, you will not regret it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

Classic. Respect.

By the way, the next Stephen Hawking: c'est moi.

You can't blame the Clintons for this! It's indicative of how stupid this campaign got, but that's it. Blaming the Clintons for it would be another sign of that, in my opinion. Everyone needs to back up and refocus. (From an Obamatron.)

Maybe he got downgraded to Cardinal when we weren't paying attention...

Written with one hand on a Sidekick while driving the PCH.

The problem I have with this column is that it's not quite bad enough to be self-parody. It needs to get worse (obviously it won't get better).

Surely the best option is to send Spencer Pratt to Iraq, so the husband can come home.

Radar says: "... he was suffering through the public collapse of of his family's business, One.Tel. - he had lost $350 million."

The original article was more accurate: "he was reeling from the humiliating and very public collapse of One.Tel, losing $350 million from the family business on the way."

Packer's family business is Consolidated Media Holdings, with annual revenues in the billions. His father is worth over $5 billion. One.Tel was just a pet project (an expensive one) that went south.

In any case, good to see him cutting off the alien psychiatrists.