Wednesday, March 18, 2009

AIG Bonus Scandal: Seppuku-Mania!

Senators to AIG Execs: "Drop dead -- literally."

AIG Execs to Senators: "You first."

Real Japanese samurai: *FACEPALM*

Advocating suicide as an honorable way out? Neither side in this mess has much (or any?) honor to begin with, so bringing up old-fashioned ideas of falling-on-your-own-sword-to-save-your-honor is pointless.

Meanwhile, is this all you guys can come up with, the AIG bonus kerfuffle as the biggest possible operatic theater of moral hypocrisy and pseudo-pietistic posing and grandstanding by everybody involved?

MEH.

Obligatory caveat: MM does not endorse suicide, honorable or not.

UPDATE: The other MM picks up the Japanese theme and calls the whole media circus the "Kabuki Theater of AIG Outrage."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

To be fair, the 'AIG execs demand Senators "resign or commit suicide"' article is satire. I thought it was quite funny, actually, given the idiotic comments by Sen. Grassley.

Mad Minerva said...

Yes, and well-deserved satire too. I suppose I should have put the "satire alert" tag on the post.

And what in the heck was Grassley even thinking?

Anonymous said...

Thinking? Isn't he a senator? Don't they cure you of that during the pre-campaign medical screening or something?

(With a few exceptions, of course. Sadly, very few, it seems.)