It’s all too easy find naked greed and just plain stupidity in America’s boardrooms. In a target-rich environment filled with the likes of BP and all the bailed out banks setting up shop faster than Starbucks stores in Manhattan, let’s pick perennial California magnificent malfeasant assopoly Pacific Gas and Electric for today’s lesson.
As Hollywood celebrities go, Kim Kardashian could be much worse. Sometimes she has a somewhat self-deprecating view of her fame. On one of the Kardashian clan’s reality shows, she was asked what she was famous for. “I’m the girl with the big ass,” she said. From big ass to big wheel, she now wants to run for Mayor of Glendale, CA.
Certainly there are few election seasons in which candidates from either party don’t say or do something stupid or ill-advised. It’s an occupational hazard when you blow smoke for a living – doubly so if you relate to other humans about as effectively as a visitor on a boondoggle,”fact-finding” junket from Jupiter.
Both Republicans and Democrats jabber a lot about jobs, even when times are relatively good. When times are bad the talk turns into a nasty shite-storm. The mantra for both sides is America can’t compete if we don’t [fill in the blank]. But here’s a dirty little secret: America can’t effectively compete regardless of which ideology you prefer.
Proving the Poobah’s posts are prescient, it’s seems the threat to smite the Mormons over posthumous baptisms caused them to collapse into mint jelly and quash the practice. Maybe.