• February 13, 2012

public assistance

Last week the smug oddballs at the Chicago Board of Trade were dumping cryptic leaflets on the Occupy Chicago protesters mysteriously proclaiming with all the rhetorical precision of Chuck Grassley’s Twitter feed to be the “1% paying for this.” But one turd floating in the swimming pool is never enough, right?, so our anonymous chicken [...]

Every winter the news reports come rolling in that some nice old lady in Maine is starving to death under a bundle of cats because she can’t pay her heating bill. Usually you will start seeing these stories in January or so. But in this great beginning of our New Depression, the bad news is [...]