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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

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Friday, February 14, 2014

Rich And Clueless


Perkins
Maybe you've heard of Tom Perkins.  He's a craven old vulture capitalist worth $8 billion, give or take.  In his letter to the Wall Street Journal last month, he notoriously equated what he called "the war on the American One-Percent" to the Nazis' persecution of Jews.  He said, "Progressive radicalism is the descendant of Kristallnacht."

But wait, there's more!  Speaking yesterday at a gathering of business leaders, he suggested his "Perkins System" for pay-to-play voting:  "You don't get to vote unless you pay taxes.  You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes."

 He was, sadly, being totally serious.

It's greedy-ass wankers like Perkins that lead to popular opinion like this:


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