Quote of the day

One of the best reads on the web is Tanta at Calculated Risk. Today, she takes after a guy who calls himself “The Mortgage Professor,” but seems to be a few credits short of a high school degree. As she says, “No way that kind of hubris is going unpunished today” and goes on to demonstrate her skills as Nemesis. 

The whole thing is worth a read if you can endure some minimal wonkery, but the line that earns a quote of the day award is this is her characterization of the “Professor’s” slackjawed, indifferent attitude toward the mortgage crisis, a crisis which is unprecedented in the post-war era. She says of reading him:  

“It’s like dropping acid without the amusement value.”

A lot of life under the Bush era could be described that way.