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Ridicu'list' for the week

Biden in surprise visit to Iraq - Was he surprised that he was in Iraq? Or was it Eyeraaak? Man - all he was trying to do was to visit his nana in New Hampshire and the airforce probably got the flight plan mixed up. Or maybe he kept saying Turkey and they decided to fly to Turkey but got their flight plans mixed up and landed in what was once Iraq.

Market Multiples out of whack - this in connection with the equities market. Frankly to me the whole idea of a P/E is out of whack. How can one company be judged to be a better or higher price multiple than another? Who decides? Then top it off with accounting policies that are best left to the one that interpreted them all manners of cooking of the books is possible leaving the P/E a useless barometer to gage the health of any enterprise. Book Value is the best of the worst metrics to tell if something is going to be 'going concern' or not.
In fact 'going concern' itself sounds ominous. Where is it going? Under? What is the concern exactly?

Norway murder suspect insane - Are we suspecting he is insane or is the once suspect and now arrested person truly deemed insane? Did it take a lot of people and this much time to determine he is insane?
This is insane no?

After Big Black Friday can shoppers keep it up? This one is a loaded question and invokes the worry about what was truly going on during the busy shopping period. I had heard about pepper sprays used for additional fun but what is this about keeping it up I say?

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