Bush and the quark

[sawyl]

Here are a couple of wonderful quotes on the current financial crisis. Here's David Voas's wonderfully pointed letter to the Graun:

Having nationalised some of the world's chief financial institutions, is George Bush the biggest socialist in history?

Here's Ken MacLeod satirising the insane volatility of the markets:

Henry Paulson will announce that from now on all currencies will be based on the Higgs boson and traded at the Large Hadron Collider, and all will go swimmingly until somebody thinks, 'Wait a minute, does that mean there's something weak about the quark?'

And here is the reason why the quark will bomb. Somewhere, in some long forgotten data centre, a server is running an arcane piece of LISP that scrapes the web for bad news stories about certain commodities and automatically dumps anything that appears to be trailing blood. Thus, merely by speculating about the potential weakness of the quark, MacLeod has made its crash in value a thing of certainty...