Steve in Manhattan

Sociopath? Criminally insane? Possibly home-schooled?

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Stormy has accused her former husband of stalking her and her current fiancée. The best part?

[Ex-husband] Mosny and Daniels have a history of domestic violence — back in 2009, when they still lived together, the porn star was arrested for battery … after allegedly attacking Mosny over the way he did the laundry.

This is precisely why I don’t complain when, on the rare occasion I do the laundry, my girlfriend refolds things. I don’t want to be punched.

Porn Star Stormy Daniels – I’m Being Terrorized By My Ex [TMZ]

Not note perfect but nice baroque flute and double manual harpsichord:

Give me the E-type Jaguar anytime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_djTy3G0pg

[via TurleyBlog]

Nobody wants to pay top dollar for the pieces of Big Shitpile still held by European banks:

(The banks want to sell their assets near “par”–the value the banks are carrying the assets for on their books–because then the banks won’t have to take losses that would further deplete their capital. The buyers, meanwhile, want deals, and they know that time is working in their favor.)

So now that banks are moving to Plan B, says Gore, which is financial engineering.

Specifically, the banks are packaging up bunches of crap assets, putting pretty bows on the packages, and then using the packages as “collateral” with which to obtain emergency loans from the ECB.

And as Spain, Italy, and Greece circle the drain, Britain is warning its expats to expect, of all things, riots when the Euro collapses:

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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new champion:

[via Gawker]

If I ever have enough people over to justify buying a gigantic bird, here’s what I will do: