{"id":199091,"date":"2007-09-10T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/10\/i-have-become-incapable-of-perceiving-sarcasm\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T21:35:00","slug":"i-have-become-incapable-of-perceiving-sarcasm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/10\/i-have-become-incapable-of-perceiving-sarcasm\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Become Incapable of Perceiving Sarcasm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lewis, the author of  , has an essay, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601039&amp;sid=a5lhZkEauCu8&amp;refer=columnist_lewis\">A Wall Street Trader Draws Some Subprime Lessons<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>His treatise? <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">This is what happens when you lend money to poor people<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>For the life of me, I can&#8217;t figure out if he&#8217;s joking or not.<\/p>\n<p>I read it, and I was incensed, and then I thought, &#8220;What wonderful snark&#8221;, and then I thought, &#8220;I hear Republican talking points like this all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Either he&#8217;s got one of the blackest hearts on wall street<sup>*<\/sup>, or a marvelous sense of snark, in which case I am completely pwn3d<sup>\u2020<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>I just can&#8217;t tell which.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of the world I hope that it&#8217;s pwnage.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><sup>*<\/sup>Which is saying something.<br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup>Owned<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lewis, the author of , has an essay, A Wall Street Trader Draws Some Subprime Lessons. His treatise? This is what happens when you lend money to poor people. For the life of me, I can&#8217;t figure out if he&#8217;s joking or not. I read it, and I was incensed, and then I thought, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1261,973,1048],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bubble","category-economy","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}