Golf Day at the mental institution…

Several Days’ Worth of the Daily Drivel:

• Be careful:  Your Keurig (ticker GMCR) machine might turn on you.
• 3Q’s 5% GDP growth might not be so impressive.
• Twitter (ticker TWTR):  They’ll be tweeting for CEO Costolo’s head before you know it.
• Stock Stampede:  Record $36 billion into US stock funds last week.  
• 19-year-old’s startup photo business puts amateur shutterbugs on front page.
• Disappointed in Homeland?  So is the Pakistani Embassy.  
• Lions Ndamukong Suh suspended for stepping over (on) the line…of Aaron Rodger’s ankle.
• Johnny Manziel denies moonlighting as party promoter.
• President Obama’s delusional NPR interview.
• It’s impossible to imagine Kobe in “chill mode.”  But Lebron?  Sure.
• Egypt bans Exodus: Gods and Kings over “Zionist view.”
• Princess, sixth in line to Spanish throne, will stand trial on tax fraud charges.

Our enemies thank you for your Cuban order.

Lunatic with brain-surgery haircut 1, US First Amendment 0

A Few Days’ Worth of Daily Drivel

• New York Governor Cuomo:  Your sex change operation should be compliments of the taxpayer.
• Latest Pew Research Center poll:  Were CIA’s interrogation methods justified?  Yes, 51% to 29%.
• McDonald’s (ticker MCD) might be next stock Bill Ackman will cry about.
• Twitter CEO’s family trusts dump rest of stock.
• That was quick:  Insider trading case might get tossed after last week’s appellate court’s decision.
• Avenue Capital is anything but distressed about shaky energy credits.
• Jeez, sorry:  Johns Hopkins accidentally sends acceptance letters to 294 early decision rejects.
• Turning a blind eye pays well:  The man who ruined baseball gets annual pension of $6 million.  

Senator Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren shows her crazy-person hand signal for “I Will Beat Hillary.”

Bud’s Round-up of Daily Drivel…

• Is there an adult in charge?  Investec analyst titles report on Standard Chartered (ticker STAN.L) “I Can’t Breathe.”
• Chinese bank offers Mercedes to get deposits.
• Don’t cheat on your commuter train fare:  UK Financial Conduct Authority bans BlackRock managing director from all financial services work (he “lacks honesty and intergrity”).
• Chris Christie defends his love for the Dallas Cowboys.
• Kobe Bryant shoots past Jordan and now ranks third.
• Down goes the Russian ruble.
• They better sell a lot of dog treats:  BC Partners is paying a Mastiff-sized 9.3x EBITDA for PetSmart (ticker PETM).

Somebody get the straitjacket.

Bud’s Round-up of Daily Drivel…

• This year’s flu shot might be nothing more than a pain in the arm.
• Nobel Prize goes to the highest bidder ($4.8 million).  
• Rolling Stone has begun to back away from its UVa rape story.
• RadioShack’s “Weird Al” ad campaign might not be enough as the financial noose tightens.
• Sears’ CEO:  “Our stores are often in the wrong place.”  Company reports big 3Q loss.
• Washington Nationals OF Jason Werth gets 10 days in the pokey for reckless driving.
• Redskins tickets drop to $3.

Smoke ’em if you got ’em!

Some of the Daily Drivel:

• Penn State University accidentally sent Jerry Sandusky a season ticket renewal letter???
• Holy crap!  Amazon enters the diaper business.
• Meet President Obama’s pick for Ambassador to Hungary:  A soap opera producer who raised a ton of money for his reelection.
• Jim Cramer’s largest shareholder wants his “barren cranium” on a plate.
• “Second prize is a set of steak knives“:  International Monetary Fund says China has overtaken US as world’s largest economy.

A couple of days’ worth of the Daily Drivel:

This news is hair-raising.

• Arizona Cardinal Darnell Dockett live-tweeted jury duty, e.g.:  “They have no idea Im (sic) am double parked in a handicap spot out side this court house in a 450k car with a registered pistol. …“
• US Nanny State rejects First Lady Michele Obama’s anti-obesity stamps.  Horribly unsafe and unacceptable activities such as skateboarding without kneepads depicted.
• US debt hits $18 trillion.  President Obama started with $10.5 trillion.
• National Enquirer says Hillary Clinton is a booze hound.
• Katie Couric flunks vocab quiz.
• NYC Mayor de Blasio to introduce legislation next week to ban horse-drawn carriages.
• A law professor discusses the physical evidence in the Ferguson case.
• How about a nice gun for Christmas?  Record gun sales on Black Friday:  2nd most sale-related background checks on record.
• MLB umpire takes day off to see Barbra Streisand in concert, then reveals he’s gay.
• Comedian Chris Rock won’t be coming to a college campus near you because the students are too sensitive.
• Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli sticks goal-scoring foot in mouth via Instagram.

Lock these people up.

Bud’s Round-up of Daily Drivel:

• Taliban’s new DIY drone shot dead
• What does a million dollar car wreck look like?
• Mickey Rourke might want to throw in the towel on the tough guy act
• She must have thought that pigs could fly
• Sinkhole swallows Australian woman
• Should he be fired?  Why not?  President of Kean University spends $219K of school’s money on a desk

Lock these people up.

Bud’s Round-Up of Daily Drivel

• Comet scientist apologizes and cries over feminist-offending attire.
• NHL’s Jack Johnson says his parents drove him and his Ferrari into bankruptcy.
• Only in NYC:  City sues restaurant over single-gender hostess ad.
• The inimitable Richard Epstein on net neutrality.
• Populist senators grill NY Fed Head over cozy relationship with Goldman Sachs.
• Read more books (and carry them with you):  Florida State student claims that his books blocked on-campus shooter’s bullet.

Lock these people up.

Bud’s Round-Up of Daily Drivel:

• As if naming a sausage company ‘Johnsonville’ wasn’t bad enough, now they want you to enjoy “Bratsgiving” and stuff their product in your Christmas stocking.
• Thanks to Ebola and Choco-holics eating more than their share, chocolate deficit predicted by 2020. 
• Bruce Jenner crashes in the dessert.  Then eats pizza and beer til rescued.
• Slappin’ Ho’s on the F Train: Man cleared of charges after defending himself against subway fashion police