Scritti Politti: March 12, 2009

Alex Balk pulls what's probably the quote of the day from Bloomberg:

"Madoff isn't going to be real popular," said Larry Levine, who served 10 years in federal prisons for securities fraud and narcotics trafficking and now advises convicts on surviving time behind bars. "All the guys there will have wives or parents who are losing their homes or their jobs or who can't send money to them anymore. Everybody's going to be blaming Bernie."

So it goes.

On The Plus Side, It's Not Every Day You Get To Use The Word "Eproctophiliacs": Via Jezebel comes the most crackpotty interview ever conducted of Rachel Maddow as perpetrated by George Wayne, for Vanity Fair, for reasons well beyond my understanding.

Well, No Wonder The Market Rallied: As iffy as Tim Geithner's been at the helm of Treasury, major progress is being made between Geithner and Congress on the matter of "This American Life" appreciation. So, yeah, I think that now all those people who are worried the Obama administration can't do two things at once can go and suck it!

Working the POWER EQUATION: Nominated for Least Essential Journalism, 2009 - your Politico blockbuster report on pocket squares.

Step Away From The Mathematics: Greg Sargent Plum Lines the hell out of some bogus anti-stimulus package talking points, exposing a really weak attempt at lying with statistics on the part of the so-called Center for Immigration Studies, which needs to understand that there are people UP IN THEIR INTERNET TUBES, DEBUNKIN' THEIR NONSENSE.

This Wouldn't Have Happened At Cats: As you might imagine, it can be awkward for the people who stage a play to discover the subject of the play in their audience. But what happens when the subject of the play is Ted Haggard?