Life fucking rocks up here, so suck on my yacht
In his own inimitable way, Matt Taibbi goes another round with Goldman-Sachs:
The more I think about it, though, the more I think that this must be some sort of clever p.r. strategy. I’m actually almost desperate to believe that this is a conscious strategy on Goldman’s part because if this really is what it looks like — if these people really are that blind and stupid — then that makes their exalted, entrenched position as mega-oligarchs endlessly lording over us truly horrifying, in a the-universe-is-random, black-comedy sort of way. It’s like making it all the way to the end of The Wizard of Oz and finding out that the Wizard is a hospital patient on a Haldol drip pushing a mop down the corridor of a cranial injury ward.
That’s just too hard for me to accept, for the moment anyway. So I’m choosing to believe they’re doing this on purpose, [...]
He has a gift for simile, doesn’t he?
