anfractuous's Comments (342)

“Which makes many of us, in Lenin's words, "useful idiots".”

“Given the number of reports here on adverse reactions to micrograms of gluten, from people who have pursued a gluten-free existence, is it better to maintain *some* routine gluten exposure , rather than none?”

“Obviously, these grains are only safe to eat in the predigested forms of whiskey, rye, scotch etc. My mother was right!”

“Lovely. Deprive them of their usual knives and forks just for the sake of a cute video.”

“Could individual managers' personal accounts have been at odds with what they knew to be fraud? I bet yes! They were only so happy to invest their company's funds according to the prevailing wisdom, while knowing quite well, they were sitting on a mountain of b'lls'it, and investing personally otherwise.
Will anyone ever be prosecuted? No. Why? The reasons would insult the intelligence of anyone who does not supposedly "represent" us Main Streeters.
Since these reprobates are reputed to be such magnificent geniuses, it would be instructive to see what marvelous material spews out of their skulls when they are put in a medieval torture device.
In the absence of the internet, such chatty frauds as Barney Frank and Chuck Schumer may have hoodwinked voters, but its not so easy now. Their allegiences are clear.
I am so disenchanted by Barney's incestuous relationship with Wall Street, that I must even question whether he is actually gay.”

“We're talking about Mr. B+, and that's without Progressive support. Such astonishing hubris is just poised for a fall, to a more justified D-.

Obama himself said it best when he told the bankers that he was the only thing betwen them and the pirtchforks. The remark however, was misinterpreted to mean he was the champion of the disenfranchised, rather than the ever ingratiating stooge of the rich.”

“Perhaps it would just be easier to get Politics out of Money. It's quite clear that your vote only serves as some corporate proxy, because that is the one remaining sphere into which their "personhood' does not yet extend. Even now, once you've pulled the lever and done their bidding, your ideals and expectations are as disposable as a candy wrapper, until the next time the flashy ads goad you to let hope triumph over experience .

Since the voter is the only one kept out of the money equation, to make the process more equitable, votes should be auctionable as routinely as politicians.”

“How ironic and commendable, that this article should appear on Bloomberg, since it was Mayor Bloomberg that, without latex gloves, lovingly massaged Lloyd Blankfein's scrotum in order to get him to remain in NYC. The argument can be made that the obscene bonuses paid by Goldman help keep the city afloat. But hundreds of millions dollars of concessions could have been better spent in revitalizing the manufacturing sector, which could absorb the hundreds of thousands of (optimistically) high school educated adults who are now languishing without hope, but quite capable of lashing out.

New York can not persist unless everyone is earning a livable wage, and we all know what "livable" means here. Bloomberg seems content in retaining a permanent, servile underclass. I love it when Lloyd Balnkfein is invariably described as the "son of a postal worker". So, the inevitable conclusion is that if you are not earning $60 million a year, and you come from modest means, you are inherently degenerate,and any complaint you register is merely sour grapes.”

“Staged.”

“Let Palin run the country into the ground, at least that would be the coup de grace to this whole rotten system. I'm still mystified by Obama's corporate allegiances, but it demonstrates a pathology that must overtake any Presidential candidate in this age. Somehow, I doubt he was smoking pot in college, scheming to someday allign himself with Big Pharma. Something happened.”

“You're right, he's an excellent poker player, if that means someone who is best able to conceal their true intentions. Poor Dean, Feingold and Kucinich, handicapped by their natural integrity, they could not allow themselves to hoodwink a nation and thus will never be President.”

“Obama's next!”

“This is all theater and will never come to be. Frank just happens to be more entertaining than most of his fellow trollops, but is subject to the same pleasures of the cash .”

“Great metaphor! How about "shoveling" instead of "feeding"?”

“The fact that all three proferred the same excuse speaks of collusion. This embarrasing gesture served to remind Obama that he's not just a chump, he's their chump.”

“Sure you don't mean Atlantic City?”

“This is a clear hoax. Man never learned to fly, but ironically, he did land on the moon.”

“Lieberman's god does not allow any depiction, but I can assure you it has a gnawingly whiny voice.”

“In other words, if you don't need the money, or you already have more money than you need.”

“I'm guessing from her photos, she's got back problems.”

“Well there's a headline that will make you laugh and cry at the same time.”

“Free Congress; legalize prostitution!”

“What does Sarah Palin have in common with Edith Kiellor?”

“These people are not competing with overseas workers for these jobs. Its very centrality is why the facility is located in Kansas City, and not Guangzhou. Their wages are low because of desperation, coupled with a cynical calculation by Amazon as to how low wages could be set before they were only hiring winos.

I would love to see how all those smug, armchair capitalists posting here will respond when they are unable to find work worthy of their mouldering diploma, and end up groveling for just such a job. Better start doing some pushups.”

“As Mr. Burns once said on the Simpsons: "I don't know anything about art, but I know what I hate."”