While others succumb to the reality of a world doing quite well, really, thank you, Malcolm McCombover at the South China Morning Post continues to flog the dead horse of global recession.
The latest "extraordinary speaker" being wheeled out to help us "understand the financial crisis" is one Malcolm Gladwell, who stands beaming oafishly at the reader looking like Coco the Clown after a hair transplant.
The latest "extraordinary speaker" being wheeled out to help us "understand the financial crisis" is one Malcolm Gladwell, who stands beaming oafishly at the reader looking like Coco the Clown after a hair transplant.
If you're currently on your summer hols, you needn't worry, as Malcolm is promising a special members price of HK$5,200 for those who don't get back until August, so long as they email to him
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I read Tipping Point and it's pants. You might want to check this article out:-
http://www.vdare.com/Sailer/050130_blink.htm
You're way ahead of me; I'd never heard of the fellow.
He's Canadian, apparently.
Actually his books are quite good - albeit none of it is original research, but he manages to repackage it well and make it readable and relevant for non-academics. He started at the New Yorker and you can read some of his articles there if you don't want to buy a book!
I got offered the seminar for $4500 ...
But are you going?
There's only one reason a man maintains a hairstyle like that - to make himself appealing to little boys.
Actually, the article Nonnie links to suggests he wishes to be the converse of Michael Jackson - accentuating his miniscule blackness by means of his "afro".
A sort of Canadian Ali G?
Isn't being the Canadian version of anything utterly pointless?
Very earnest types, those Canucks.
Oi! Leave BGW out of this!!
Earnest? Accountants are earnest too, aren't they?
no of course I'm not going. I'm taking the bus instead of a taxi these days to try and economise. I've read all his books. My policy is to read things rather than see the movie! But I've heard he's an incredibly good speaker.
Shame - I was looking forward to a report.
Hey.... I'm Canadian. But I'm from the Montreal part of Canada, where the French boys are cute and the food is good. So maybe I'm excused.
Canadian, J, but not at all earnest, non?
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