My friend, Michael Stern, now has his website up and running, and there are some absolutely wonderful photographs there. Florida wildlife shots, and birds and nature shots. Stuff for sale. Check it out here.
Yet the bailouts and pardons are being handed out left and right. The "midnight rules" are being printed up to leave the gates wide open for even more rapacious activity. One more thing Obama's people will have to clean up.
Remember how people howled when the Clintons supposedly clipped a few items from the White House on their way out. Compare that to what this gang of Mongols has done. They stripped the treasury.
And either they watched it happen and approved, or they were so totally incompetent that they didn't know the looting was going on all around them.
So this holiday season, I'm thankful I can still afford a tankful. I'm thankful it's almost January 2009.
I only wish I'd kept that printing press my parents gave me as a child.
You've read the book, seen the movie. Now for the real bloodsucking.
Is this the Twilight of Capitalism? In eight short years (well it seemed very long to some of us) we've gone from 'free and unregulated markets know best' to quasi-socialism: state sponsored banks and insurance companies and probably soon, auto companies and, well, who knows what next? Authors? Yeah!
Here's a wonderfully British award which was established by Auberon Waugh to "gently dissuade" authors from including "unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a sexual nature in otherwise sound literary novels".
