My biggest souce of entertainment this week...
I have been having so much fun watching the unspooling feud between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer.
Okay, full disclosure: When I lived with my grandparents, they watched Mad Money nearly every night. I think Jim Cramer indulges in shallow, idiotic, distracting, insulting hijinks to mask his own vapidity, that he creates artificially pumped-up enthusiasm and a deceptive sense of urgency to aid his self-serving boosterism, and that his presentation of his own expertise and certainty borders on the criminally irresponsible. Oh, and that he strikes me as a thoroughly unpleasant person who is going to scream himself into an early but very well-deserved coronary.
So it's not like I'm biased.
Part one, Part two, and Part three. They get steadily funnier, until the climax of the third one, which is pretty genius.
And now Cramer is going to be on the Daily Show on Thursday. Must watch! But what I really want to know is this: how could any celebrity think that it's a good idea to get in a pissing contest with Jon Stewart? I mean, you will lose that fight! Was Cramer stupid?
Random: I am making raspberry filled fudge brownies. If they turn out half as good as they smell so far, this could be really something. Thank God for Nestle pre-made dough (don't stone me! I know I'm a heathen!).
Okay, full disclosure: When I lived with my grandparents, they watched Mad Money nearly every night. I think Jim Cramer indulges in shallow, idiotic, distracting, insulting hijinks to mask his own vapidity, that he creates artificially pumped-up enthusiasm and a deceptive sense of urgency to aid his self-serving boosterism, and that his presentation of his own expertise and certainty borders on the criminally irresponsible. Oh, and that he strikes me as a thoroughly unpleasant person who is going to scream himself into an early but very well-deserved coronary.
So it's not like I'm biased.
Part one, Part two, and Part three. They get steadily funnier, until the climax of the third one, which is pretty genius.
And now Cramer is going to be on the Daily Show on Thursday. Must watch! But what I really want to know is this: how could any celebrity think that it's a good idea to get in a pissing contest with Jon Stewart? I mean, you will lose that fight! Was Cramer stupid?
Random: I am making raspberry filled fudge brownies. If they turn out half as good as they smell so far, this could be really something. Thank God for Nestle pre-made dough (don't stone me! I know I'm a heathen!).