Steve Kurtz <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the best govt money can buy? ;-)
> BY Leo Standora > <http://www.nydailynews.com/authors/Leo%20Standora> DAILY NEWS > STAFF WRITER > > Originally Published:Friday, April 23rd 2010, 12:59 AM > Updated: Friday, April 23rd 2010, 7:31 AM > > The country's top financial watchdogs turned out to be horndogs > who spent hours gawking at porn Web sites as the economy > teetered on the brink, according to a memo released Thursday > night. > > [snip] > > - Seventeen of the randy employees were "at a senior level" > earning salaries of up to $222,418. One of Stuart Brand's slogans in the Whole Earth Catalog era was "Cream Rises". A few years later, in the Whole Earth Review/Co-evolution Quarterly era, we began to see the slogan that embraces the downside: Scum Also Rises. [1] There is probably a whole corpus of work out there, in sociology or social psychology, that investigates and reveals how it is that scum rises despite the putative constraints of meritocracy, democracy, professional standards of integrity and the like. Or maybe not. Just how do you get academic funding for a study that proposes to investigate the hypothesis that the people in charge are, disproportionately, bright, ambitious dickheads? - Mike [1] Anyone who had milked a cow by hand already knew this. I kinda doubt that milking was ever part of Stuart's growing up. -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
