~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Holding the Martha Stewart Bag Salon.com, in a "Premium" teaser, seems to think that Martha Stewart, iron lady of suburban values and global promoter of the culturally nondescript, should get a break on this ridiculous insider trading accusation, because after all she is a person of influence and a member of the board of the New York Stock Exchange, which apparently should be enough to exonerate her of a fiduciary crime. So why, Salon asks, is the not-actually-smiling one being hounded so unfairly? Those congressmen must be after publicity; what other rational explanation could there be? The Martha only made $48,000 on the trade for godsakes, peanutshells for her. So howcome they're so arbitrarily accusing her of what she actually did, instead of going after somebody else who actually did something? Where in this cruel world do we draw the line?? The Salon article itself smacks of insider influence; is Martha by any chance also a member of the Salon board? How can one so pre-eminent possibly be accused of anything lowdown, especially of taking advantage of her position to obtain information that enabled her to sell before the plunge, why should she care about a few thousand dollars, unlike all the invisible and nameless small investors who paid for The Big M's paltry gains with loss from their life savings? This is so unfair to Martha!! Well SHE DID care enough about those paltry few dollars to take some of her extremely valuable time to call from her private jet mid-flight to Mexico and cash in and leave the myriad nameless holding a singularly unattractive Martha Stewart bag, styled by Martha herself. posted by Robert Brady 5:47 PM . . .
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Talk about Loose Cannons Katherine Harris, the Cruella Deville of low grade Florida politics who slipped Dubya the extra ace that gave him the pot and the game, is now running for Congress from Florida, and if her proclivities prove anything at all, she will win by just enough to get to Washington, no matter how the mere serfs vote. What must going on in Dubya's mind (for he is in major debt to this woman, illegal debt in fact, she stole the election for him, but the real clincher on the debt is: what if she talks?), as she dyes her hair and changes her persona from piranha to shark in a warmup for the more chameleonlike aspects of Washington that Dubya will never master (he knows only your basic lizard), she'll just love the glamor of it all, it will legitimize her at last, and Dubya is her ticket to power (that woman worships power like Dubya worships small words), he's in her back pocket, and if he doesn't come through you think she'll fall on her sword? No way, it'll be like Fatal Attraction on the beltway, just dumbed down a lot to suit the participants. posted by Robert Brady 3:44 AM . . .
