We're just like other people.

Because we definitely don't look rich,

That we are alike, you and I.

As for this profound theory, we human beings are like eggs.

The analogy for me is Alaska. You know, we bought Alaska.

Yet the comparison with what the French call laicité is misleading.

We are extremely dinosaur like, and unusual in our two legged approach to life.

Those first three seconds when you push yourself out of bed, they blow.

Stalin s regime could be compared to a cruel, sadistic father who keeps his children in a state of fear and submission.

The result has been a de facto imperial presidency, with Mubarak likened to the god king Pharaohs of ancient Egypt.

We are radical as hell but our political and social institutions have not changed and this is where we are stagnating because we always equate any new idea with communism or regimentation because we have been brought up to fear that which is new.

In some ways, the Fed resembles a drunk driver who, suddenly realizing that he is heading off the road starts careening from side to side. The response to the lack of liquidity is ever more liquidity.

In effect, finance enthusiasts are like America s gun advocates who argue that guns don t kill people people kill people.