Gekko On The Rocks

The evil actors and corrupt cartoon characters at AIG are taking our money their bonuses whether Timothy F. Geithner, or anyone else— likes it or not.

Keeping Pests In Their Place

[T]he GOP may stand for something, but who can tell what it is? You can’t trust them to tell you what they stand for – they’ve been lying for so long that I’m not even sure that they know what their “core principles” are anymore.

Meghan Like, McModerate

O’HURLAHEE’S PUB — Surrounded by Eric Cartman-like WingNut ugly dolls drinking green beer is not Michael Steele’s idea of reaching out to moderates. It’s Megan McCain’s. “I know I’ve like become controversial and my statements are like controversial, but I wouldn’t be on this bar like in my panties if I didn’t think it was important. Period.”

Pie in the Sky With Diamonds Savings

Where does your slice of the American Pie go? Finally.  George Orwell‘s letters to his mistress are going on the auction block.  But before I can fork over the moolas for one or more of them, a have a few other decisions to make about where my ever slender piece of the yummy munny pie goes.  So listen up, wage …

Your Mortgage Is Not My Problem

And now, as a public service to those without the comedy channel, an important bit of satirical news about the Wall Street Infomercial Channel.

And They Call It Democracy

Padded with power here they come
International loan sharks backed by the guns
Of market hungry military profiteers
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
With the blood of the poor. . .

Lincolnesque

Only by coming together, all of us, and expressing that sense of shared sacrifice and responsibility … can we do the work that must be done in this country. That is the very definition of being American.”