ENNUI OR ON YOU?

In past posts, the author has written about economic issues that presaged the current recession. The causes are legion. Collapse of asset values, subprime mortgage collapse, decline of manufacturing capacity, the hamstringing of the regulatory mechanism, general malaise, the failure to release the “Beavis and Butthead Christmas Special” on DVD.

Just this week an article in the Christian Science Monitor highlighted the 18 percent unemployment in the author’s home town, Ligonier, Indiana. The article did not a resilency and community spirit among the rural denizens, however.

CORROSION OR RUST

We need villains. We need bonuses paid to corporate looters that plunged their companies into insolvency. We need verbal gaffes from politicians that can feed the electron-gobbling fiend that is the 24-hour news cycle. And we need a mentally-ill woman with way to many kids to care for.

(The Author does not need these diversions, but he is a misshapen misanthrope that entertains himself with this blog and trenchant cuts at what substitutes for culture.)

Ponzi schemes point the way to a wailing plutocracy. No one will ever get even with Bernie Madoff, but their righteous indignation will whip through howls of execration. The best among us condemn the theft, the worst regret only his methods. The misanthrope only wishes he could have gotten in early and gotten out in time.

The Author’s talked a little too long. He has written little and feels like he has said nothing. Good thing he doesn’t get paid for it.

MISANTHROPY IS BETTER THAN LYCANTHROPY IN THE DESERT OF THE REAL!