Oh man

Got whacked with a nasty little stomach bug that took me out for a couple of days. Now I have to get caught up on cartoon work. Not looking for sympathy, just didn't want you to think I'd gotten bored with the blog already. I'll get more posted when I can.

posted by Tom Tomorrow at 9:59 AM| link

One more from Cheney

"We've seen it in cases like this before, where it's demanded that presidents cough up and compromise on important principles...we are weaker today as an institution because of the unwise compromises that have been made over the last 30 to 35 years."

Translation: Nixon should never have turned over those tapes 30 years ago, and by god I'm not going to make the same mistake today.

posted by Tom Tomorrow at 6:24 PM| link

New virus alert

Just passing this along: if you get an email that says "new photos from my party" in the subject line, delete it. If you open it, it will send itself to everyone in your address book.

posted by Tom Tomorrow at 2:35 PM| link

Enron and on

Okay, let's see.

We've got wealthy executives making off with millions while their investors and employees get the shaft, a laughably hamfisted parable of class warfare and corporate excess--except that it's true. Ken Lay might as well be wearing a top hat and a monocle, lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills.

We've got the Vice President of the United States refusing to release information pertaining to his secret talks with Enron. (As, you know, a matter of principle. "What we've told the GAO we won't do," he explains, "is make it impossible for me or future vice presidents to ever have a conversation in confidence with anybody without having, ultimately, to tell a member of Congress what we talked about and what we said." In other words, if Cheney bends on this, our elected leaders may actually be forced to endure some measure of accountability for their actions, god forbid.)

We've got at least one mysterious death--the apparent suicide of a former Enron executive who, from all reports, had nothing to hide, but wasexpected to be a major whistleblower in the case.

And soon, we'll have sex. As the London Telegraph reports this morning, "Enron was a company in love with itself. Office affairs were rampant, divorce among senior executives an epidemic, and stories of couples steaming up glass-walled offices after late-night meetings were the talk of Houston."

Villainy, fraud, sex, death and a stonewalling White House. You think this thing is just going to blow over?

Excuse me while I wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes.

posted by Tom Tomorrow at 10:15 AM| link