Nonsequential Links VI

Here we go again...

Lust can make you do extremely stupid things, but it takes true love to really motivate you to screw your life up.

After all, to go up, up, ever upwards—isn’t that the fantasy everyone’s had at one point or another, in childhood or beyond?

It's a place, in the INS reporter's words, where "fixed incomes" battle "galloping inflation."

There's no mystery as to how he rose so high: He hires talented people and sucks the life out of them.

Interestingly enough, the movie with the most original story this summer was digitally created, so it's not the technology that's to blame. It's the lack of imagination.

Hell, if you look at this divorced from prior knowledge of who this character is supposed to be, it looks as though The Authorities have sought Holmes' help primarily for his martial-arts and acrobatic skills.

Hey, Mike, go spend a day in the Brooklyn shipyards and get a little PERSPECTIVE, man.