Top People In D.C. Would Never Admit They Don’t Really Know What To Do

I’m liking Dodd a lot these days. Eyes open, looking forward, thinking. Bernanke wishes he could just go home.

I would like to see these pictures side by side so that Dodd is looking at Bernanke. Looks like a teenager who got busted with a stash of weed.

NoContest : “[public] behavior, [of resignation, surrender] when you have privately accepted the foregone conclusion”
‘foregone conclusion’ : inevitable ending.
otoh, ‘the foregone conclusion’ : a group’s; the herd’s; some Other’s willed destiny: not of your own Self’s willing design.
‘foregone’ : (adj) bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone (well in the past; former) “bygone days“; “dreams of foregone times“; “sweet memories of gone summers“; “relics of a departed era“.

Maybe they need the comfort of pressure against their lips. Are they self-soothing? Given that they must be deep in complicated thought, maybe the need the reminder of their physical presence.

Maybe it’s just the news I’m catching – mostly NPR and PBS, but I have been struck by how many “experts” and legislators are admitting that they don’t know, that it’s all a high-stakes crapshoot at this point.
Now, about those hands: I see them as mudras. Dodd’s is the Anjali Mudra, often used in greeting, but when held for a longer time it’s for the energetic purpose of focusing the mind, linking right and left brain. Even people who know nothing about mudras will spontaneously put their hands in this position when they are willing themselves to think well. Yes, people do this in prayer, too, but, energetically, it’s about mental focus and power.
Bernanke’s – well, no exact mudra that I recognize, but it looks less like prayer to me and more like “trying to hold it together”, or pulling it all in, which seems particularly apt – everything loosely held together with ungrounded imagination, delusion, lies, and duct tape is now flying apart and his job is to apply glue, gravity, gobs of money to pull it back into some kind of workable form.

Thanks for the editorial assistance MonsieurGonzo.
Do you all know the theory of contagion in economics? It would be similar to a bird flu pandemic but it involves personal financial withdrawal from public fiduciary outlets – that would be banks, money markets, mutual funds, insurance policies and 1,000 other various vunerable repositories. Massive, viral and instantaneous. Look for this to begin tomorrow. They are running on Asian banks as we speak. There is some air left in the balloon, that is going to escape in a great gust. Beware!

@ NoContest : mais non, il était moi qui donnait des mercis à vous.
you are a good writer, and it was a pleasure to indulge myself in the depth of meaning(s) expressed within your chosen prose.