Anybody Remember Enron?

Amanda Colpean, a former Enron executive, is the first witness to testify in the first trial involving defendants employed by the company...

It'll be interesting to see how much play the press gives this.

Enron is to business what Bush is to politics--an example of total sleaze passed off as brilliant business--until the shit hits the fan. Then the top dogs scramble for their golden parachutes, a few lower level true believers are slapped around a bit as sop, and the common folks who invested in this pyramid scheme passed off as genuine free enterprise are still out untold millions of dollars collectively.

Then it's back to business as usual.

Speaking of "it'll be interesting," I wonder when Blogger will actually get around to posting this. It's been a slow day for me, but that's at least in part because something I added this morning still hasn't show up and it's almost 4:20pm.