sebster wrote:IMF rapes country... that's not news.
Head of IMF rapes a chambermaid... now that's news!
This was the very first thing I thought of when I first saw the headline.
In other news, I spent the whole weekend telling my friends at the IMF that they hadn't be promoted because, unlike Mr. Strauss-Khan, they weren't fully committed to their job.
Automatically Appended Next Post: sebster wrote:And Ben Stein takes this special occasion to announce to the world that he's a special kind of donkey-cave;
"In life, events tend to follow patterns. People who commit crimes tend to be criminals, for example. Can anyone tell me any economists who have been convicted of violent sex crimes? Can anyone tell me of any heads of nonprofit international economic entities who have ever been charged and convicted of violent sexual crimes? Is it likely that just by chance this hotel maid found the only one in this category? Maybe Mr. Strauss-Kahn is guilty but if so, he is one of a kind, and criminals are not usually one of a kind."
People who commit crimes only tend to be criminals? I thought the definition of a criminal required one to commit a crime.
Of course, he also said this:
Stein wrote:
…Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.
So that's how everyone won Ben Stein's money.