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Friday, August 24, 2007

Early morning snark

...sometimes you just wake up on a Friday in a snarky mood. Here's an unfair post:

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES THEY DON'T TEACH IN CLASSROOMS


Zhang Shuhong, a 52-year-old businessman, had apparently committed suicide, just days after Mattel blamed his company, Lee Der Industrial, in Foshan, in southern China, for the recall of one million toys coated in toxic lead paint. - NYT


Cayne, an avid golf and bridge player whose hobbies did not appear to suffer during the turmoil, also cut out of a tense early-August call with analysts shortly after it began. - Fortune, on Bear Stearns rumble