Simply Sylleptically Brilliant

Joe Stockley was in an expensive sports car and deep trouble. This time, he had really let his mouth and his exotic foreign lover run away with him and it was getting beyond a joke and his immediate circle of friends in the form of rumours and speculation.
As he ran a red light, the conversation back in his mind and away from his troubles, he couldn’t help but feel a sense of rising panic and the soft matte finish of his hand-stitched leather steering wheel. Angelica had been absolutely right and his wife for fifteen years, so why was he running scared, these kind of risks and this deadly gauntlet of illicit entanglements?

From How to Write Badly Well. Consider the Mad Hat tipped.

Did the Marxists get this one right?

Are recessions a valuable tool for Evil Capitalists (TM) to scare the Working Classes (TM) into working harder using the threat of unemployment as a stick?

Perhaps they were right, after all. At least some data seems to be on their side this time.

My country for a Nobel?

The lure of a Nobel prize makes Indian Prime Ministers let go of common sense, opines TVR Shenoy.