While I think Obama is making lots of questionable moves, I don’t blame him for our predicament. I blame the egomaniacal greed mongers (mostly member of the White Good Old Boys’ Club) who betrayed and raped laissez-faire capitalism, instead of protecting and cherishing it, and, among other things, shamed us around the world by trading on our good name to sell the rest of the world toxic assets, fraudulently rated Triple A across the board (SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!), and are so smart that probably none of them will face any severe consequences.

To my mind, they constitute a separate category of mass murderers – sentencing their innocent victims to slow and humiliating deaths. In a tiny way, they are like the bomber pilots and crews who dropped death, dismemberment, and destruction on those below but who didn’t have to see, up close, what those bombs were doing when they exploded. Of course, those pilots and crews were under orders and were at huge risk of being downed in the course of war. These Captains of Industry gave orders and, in the course of greed and mad ambition, made certain they were at almost no risk.

Bill Maher had the right idea. Round up some of them and blow them up during half-time at The Super Bowl.

I’m surprised the rest of the world is even treating us with a modicum of respect.