News from Walker Percy Weekend: We’ve just added two excellent panelists to the Walker Percy & Catholicism discussion, hosted by Jason Berry.
Panelist Patrick Samway, SJ, wrote Percy’s authorized biography. Here is an excerpt from Chapter One. And here is an excerpt from Robert Coles’s review in The New York Times:
Earlier today, for the first time we got a glimpse into some of the American names allegedly contained in the "Panama Papers", largest ever leak. "Some", not all, and "allegedly" because as we said yesterday, "one can't help but wonder: why not do a Wikileaks type data dump, one which reveals if not all the 2.6 terabytes of data due to security concerns, then at least the identities of these 441 US-based clients. After all, with the rest of the world has already been extensively shamed, it's only fair to open US books as well."
By EconMatters
Barclays, BNP Paribas and a bunch of shorts are going to have to cover before the Doha Meeting. Expect the short squeeze to begin sometime this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l3TeQTrU5U
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at mounting Western criticism of his clampdown on free speech and journalism in Turkey. Speaking at a meeting of the Turkish Red Crescent in Ankara, Erdogan criticised the U.S. and Europe as being hypocritical in their condemnation of Turkey’s apparent lack of human rights. “Those who attempt to give us lessons in democracy and human rights must first contemplate their own shame,” the Turkish leader said.
An Englishman from Lincolnshire has found a novel way to take off his socks while sitting at the back of a truck… Inventor, Colin furze removes his socks off with the aid of a rocket launcher and has posted a video showing how he does it on youtube Lincolnshire Echo reports: It shows him sitting in a field with some string attached to his black socks. The other end of the string is tied to a rocket launcher mounted on his shoulder. The video shows Mr Furze fire the rocket and his socks shoot off – he then appears shocked that it went to plan.