Score Card – Progress |
Fewer Rules, More Bars! Republicans heading into the sunset of oblivion are scurrying around trying to satisfy chits by passing legislation easing a bucket full of rules legislated post Enron’s collapse that govern American corporations. It’s not the rules, dummy; any corporation with smart lawyers can dance around rules. It’s the punishment! Cheat or defraud or lie, jail for ten years (not negotiable) plus one additional year for each $10 million pocketed after coughing up every cent of ill-gotten gains. |
So This Radioactive Spy Goes Into a Bar... As Polonium poisoned radioactive former Russian spy Litvinenko is laid to rest in a specially sealed coffin in a forest-like area of London’s Highgate Cemetery, seven bartenders at the Pine Bar of the Mayfair Hotel on Grosvenor Square, the same bar where Litvinenko met two Russian colleagues (at least one of whom is now also ill from radioactive poisoning) immediately before falling ill, have tested positive for radioactive contamination. Two hundred and fifty Pine Bar customers are also being called in for testing...honey, I wasn’t there, honest; I think I have a touch of the flu. |
Lay A Bomb! Homeland Security to spend $60 million to examine container ships from |
Rumsfeld Rumination Hip, hip, hooray, Dastardly Don is gone. Alas, the criminal war in |
Allium E.Colli? That’s bad onions to you baby, the ones doled out at Taco Bells that are wreaking havoc with the stomachs of a hundred or so patrons largely in the Northeastern States. In a safety move, Taco Bell has yanked these tasty but dangerous offenders from all 5,800 |
Corporate Crook Update
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That’s all for this week, my friends. Stay alert; don’t get uh, twisted! |
A commentary of business, government, and odds and ends through an often peculiar looking glass.
Friday, December 08, 2006
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