Today(4/22/10), as I begin writing this ExxonMobil is down 62 cents. MOMA’s special tribute to this day is called Greenday for some stupid reason [according myspace music, Greenday is number 2 in caring about the earth, right behind Thom Yorke, who is not a band]. I can already tell that Earthday(tm) is going to be a huge success. Obama is giving a speech on finance down the street, and I turned it off when he started flattering the free market, talking about how much he believes in it, yada yada, But only because a coworker asked me to turn down my radio. Apparently, the free market never uses it’s free hand to stroke its own ego (I won’t mention what the other hand is doing). Which makes me as fearful of the free market, as much as any other god who is so insecure it needs constant praise. Why is the free market so insecure, who is threatening it?…
(5/4/10) Updates: I just realized why that guy in the leather coat, long beard, and eight year old girl, was standing infront of BP chanting, “BOY COTT B P! DON’T GIVE-THOSE-DEV-ILS-YOUR-DOLL-ERZ!”
Maybe, BP is not as terrible as Exxon (whose stock went up since Earth Day(tm), but went down again, a little lower), and won’t keep appealing for decades, to the point that the payout is only a small fraction of the original award for damages.
Shwartzenaygger won’t drill.
The musical, American Idiot, is up for a Tony Soprano.
