Scary quote gleaned from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in an interview with an FBI agent:

So what crimes are the mob likely to be involved in now that they wouldn't have been involved in twenty years ago?

We've had numerous cases that illustrate their involvement in the stock market. They're infiltrating the financial sector a lot more than they did twenty or thirty years ago. The days of "give me a thousand dollars or I'm gonna break your legs" explicitly stated to someone and captured on tape, I think, are over. The forms of extorting individuals are now concealed in inflated invoices, they're concealed in control of high-level executives at companies.

If organize crime infiltrated a hedge fund, how could you tell?

The video for Adelle's Chasing Pavements makes me cry every time.

If organize crime infiltrated a hedge fund, how could you tell?

Is there a punchline about hedgehogs with broken kneecaps in there?

I am leaning more and more toward burying money in my backyard everyday. Or I would be if I had money.

If I had money to bury in my backyard, I'd have tons of motivation to actually garden in my little plot. I'd plant Lunaria.

She's got a powerful voice. I'm sure I've run across her on WTMD, though with the short commute, don't listen to it as much. On her youtube channel, the featured vid reminds me in power and turn of KT Tunstall's Black Horse and the Cherry Tree.

Rolling in the Deep was on heavy rotation for me just a few months ago.

"Rolling in the Deep" was *everywhere* for a while, and as awesome as it is, I got a little tired of it.

"Rolling in the Deep" was *everywhere* for a while

Except in my house, AFAICT. But this is the superpower that means I've only heard one Bieber song, so I'm pretty okay with it.

I'm with you, ita. I only heard Adele for the first time when my niece made me listen on a road-trip. I mostly listen to the news on the radio, and use my iPod for music.