Date: February 6th, 2007

Update: Blackstone reads AHI!

6 February, 2007 (10:47) | Uncategorized |

 Channeling AHI, Blackstone just upped its bid — and by how much?
 

 
At 9:31 am today, I posted the following:
 
In my uninvited opinion, Blackstone should do something, even as little as upping its bid by $0.50 per share [Easy for you to give away $175 million of someone else's money! -- Ed.], so as to demonstrate that [...]

Barbarians: the zwischenzug

6 February, 2007 (09:31) | Uncategorized |

German is such a lovely language for expressing complex belligerent thoughts,
 

 
and so the same tongue that accommodates blitzkrieg, weltschmerz, schadenfreude, and zeitgeist, has also given us the useful chess term zwischenzug, meaning an in-between move, used in the middle of an otherwise forcing chess combination to upset the opponent’s timing, and hence to change [...]