Friday
Hard to say if the snappily titled "When Your Neighbor Loses His Job It's A Recession. When You Screw A Whore Behind Your Wife's Back, Get Caught, And Lose Your Job, It's A Catastrophic Economic Meltdown" is my favourite blog post title of the year or not but it is both howlingly funny and 100% on the money.
Disgraced criminal Eliot Spitzer has for reasons unknown been occupying a columnist spot at Slate.com for some period of time. His column is always dull, hysterical, and powered by a level of self-satisfaction that is undiminished by any apparent shame over the pain the columnist has caused not only for his own family but for a good Jersey girl trying to make a living by providing an honest service.
Hehe... read the whole thing.
I almost posted an extract from this as the SQOTD for yesterday. My preferred extract was this:
It's unfortunate that he will be remembered only for committing a crime that in any normal society -- that is, a society where puritanical fuckfaces like Eliot Spitzer had no power over others -- would not be a crime at all. But by bringing up the economy and business regulation, Spitzer reminds us of a much more serious offense: his concerted efforts to make New York a more hostile place to do business.
I ultimately decided not to post it, on the basis that Spitzer is yesterday's puritanical fuckface and thus best ignored.
But I may have been wrong.
Posted by Michael Jennings at October 16, 2009 08:10 PM
I think I understand...that those would prefer to engage in commerce, rather than looting, are responsible for the collapse of an economy based on looting, rather than commerce...but I'm not entirely sure.
Have I got that right?
Posted by Brian, follower of Deornoth at October 16, 2009 08:31 PM
Thank you, Perry. "A recession is when you know someone out of work. A depression is when you are out of work" I didn't know that this expression was used in Britain as well as here. Then, my adoptive father was "over there" during WWII.
He found me too young to appreciate tits at a pub.
Over here, a college degree gets a ground-level job at a grocery store. Then, I live in a city where a Magna cum Laude PhD in biochemistry, Harvard, was (may still be?) a taxi driver.
Too bad he didn't have "connections", "a debt of honor"
(blackmail), or some "grandfathering". Having those,
he wouldn't need the academic degree.
Posted by cjf at October 17, 2009 05:19 AM
I see so it was a "libertarian world view" that caused the meltdown.
Not the endless increase in credit money by the Federal Reserve (under Alan Greenspan - who Any Rand rightly smashed a lunch plate in the face of, many years ago).
Nor the antics of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (both government created and government backed) nor the rest of Congressman Barney Frank and Senators Chris Dodd and Barack Obama's "affordable housing policy".
No the facts as presented by Thomas Woods "Meltdown" and Thomas Sowell's "Housing: Boom and Bust" are nothing to do with the crises.
It was caused by a "libertarian worldview".
Do people like Spitzer really believe their own B.S.?
If so perhaps he really believed the women was with him because she loved him - even as he paid her the money.
Posted by Paul Marks at October 18, 2009 09:59 PM
