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The satire to reality spread is now just three days
2010-02-24 08:49:37
Consider this my apology, dear readers, for not having my full attention on getting ahead of the satire-becomes-reality curve.
It was certainly not intentional - I work hard these days, haven't as much time as I'd like for this hobby - but I am indeed slapping myself for missing these.
With the Greeks following Dubai into the financial black hole of massively negative cash flow, one would think - if one took the time to think about it - what would be more ridiculous than to propose (tongue-in-cheek, of course) that yesterday's famous bankruptcy should step in to bailout today's?
And yet here it is.
(Well, yes - technically Dubai is not Abu Dhabi, but it's pretty darn close, and one has to ask why Abu Dhabi would bail Greece and not its own fellow U.A.E. emirate.)
In other news is the continuing fallout from the now famous Stack Attack on the IRS building in Austin.
Let's go on a little mental adventure here, and ask ourselves: in the context of the widespread sympathy that inured to Joe Stack - after all, who can't understand a man driven mad by the crushing gears of a massive bureaucracy whose edicts are enforced with guns and jails? - who could possibly be the least sympathetic person to show up on the side of the IRS?
Who indeed? With Hitler long dead, the obvious candidate is already taken. But alas, before I could suggest such a thing (while giggling like a schoolgirl), guess who beats me to it?
That's right, ladies and gentlemen - read it and weep. The economist who claimed not to understand his tax obligations and somehow not only got away with it, but ended up as Secretary of the Treasury (and thus is now in executive command of the IRS), then proceeded to waste unimaginable amounts of those very same tax dollars on bailing out his buddies on Wall Street, all the while perjuring himself serially in Congressional testimony.
I'll beat you to the punch next time, reality - I swear it on my federal bailout!
