TB’s Quote of the day: ”If you can’t drink a lobbyist’s whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, ... ! In the meantime, how many money managers, trying to window dress for quarterend in the worst ... firm invariably the lost money for us), that huge bonuses are paid and then a firm loses money the next

Tom Waits' 2006 triple album Orphans is one of the best he's put out since Bone Machine. I only just got around to buying it and listening to it. There are three discs: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards. I've gotten through Brawlers (gurgletronic whiskey-soaked stompy blues) and Bastards (pure sillines ...