The Political Jungle

It sucks to be the slowest zebra. But in God’s perfect world of natural selection the swift and healthy zebras survive and procreate while the slow or careless zebras get served with toast points at a lion’s dinner party. The point is that there are winners and losers in these scenarios of survival. Even though [...]

Twice Chewed AIG Cabbage

As my old friend Amos used to say “I don’t chew my cabbage twice”. Having recently commented on the AIG bonus fiasco I am not inclined to re-masticate the same topic. But the political response and media coverage has gone from absurd to obscene while remaining silent on the most important piece to this puzzle. [...]

Bailing Failure

Brace yourself boys and girls for this once in a lifetime headline. BigFrick agrees with President Barack Obama and Congressman Barney Frank, at least in part. The recent admission by AIG that they plan to use part of the huge taxpayer bailout they received to pay $165 million in bonuses to their derivative traders is [...]