BURN BABY BURN
The California Celebrity Fires
The Boo ain’t no N.O. Plus: George Bush, Flame Retard What color is your disaster? It makes a difference. A life and death difference
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Travel Blog
Thomas Friedman’s Underpants
[New York] Von Eckardt, our chief investigator, joined me and Krugman in the green room. She’s a big fan of Paul’s and couldn’t wait to hear two of her favorite economics writers talk privately about the great issues of the day.
“I wring them out as absolutely tight as I can,” said Krugman, “and by the morning they’re just a little damp but you can still wear them.”
I had a different technique for stretching the supply of underwear on book tours: Wear them into the shower or, in a pinch, turn them inside out.
“There’s one guy that has a clean pair Fed-Ex’d to him every day and he puts the dirty ones in a return envelope.” The “guy,” of course, had to be Thomas Friedman.
When Ahnold Got Lay'd
Excerpted from Armed Madhouse
May 17, 2001. In a room at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverley Hills, the Financial Criminal of the twentieth century, not long out of prison, met with the Financial Criminal of the twenty-first century who feared he may also have to do hard time. These two, bondmarket manipulators Mike Milken and Ken Lay, no-yet-indicted Chairman of Enron Corporation, were joined by a select group of movers and shakers – and one movie star.
Lay Convicted, Bush Walks (and Ahnold Gets Lay'd)
Special For Truthout
Don’t kid yourself. If you think the conviction of Ken Lay means that George Bush is serious about going after corporate bad guys, think again.
Ahnold Gets Lay'd
by ERIK WILSON
San Francisco Chronicle
Geraldine Field (Letters, June 16) asks where Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is when it comes to demanding accountability from Enron for the money that they gamed from California during the manufactured energy crisis of 2001?
