Tom Tomorrow, the political activist/cartoonist who draws “This Modern World,” has a blog. While This Modern World is occassionally obvious and overly didactic, the same messages in prose form seem positively punchy on the blog. This is going into my daily list.
We’ve got wealthy executives making off with millions while their investors and employees get the shaft, a laughably hamfisted parable of class warfare and corporate excess–except that it’s true. Ken Lay might as well be wearing a top hat and a monocle, lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills…
And soon, we’ll have sex. As the London Telegraph reports this morning, “Enron was a company in love with itself. Office affairs were rampant, divorce among senior executives an epidemic, and stories of couples steaming up glass-walled offices after late-night meetings were the talk of Houston.”
Villainy, fraud, sex, death and a stonewalling White House. You think this thing is just going to blow over?
Excuse me while I wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes.
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