flickering pictures

A comment on America’s financial woes, as reported in the latest edition of Harper’s Weekly:

“The private market has screwed itself up,” said Representative Barney Frank (D., Mass.), “and they need the government to come help them unscrew it.”

A close second, also from Harper’s Weekly:

“My first instinct,” said President George W. Bush, “was to let the market work, until I realized, being briefed by experts… It turns out that there’s a lot of interlinks through the financial system.”

I think the word you’re looking for, Mr. President, is intertubes.

And a third one, just for fun:

A truck carrying 20 tons of money from the Philadelphia Mint to the U.S. Treasury in Miami crashed, killing one passenger and spilling 3.7 million nickels onto I-95. “It’s shiny,” said Florida Highway Patrol trooper Kim Miller.

If you’re not already signed up to Harper’s Magazine’s weekly round-up, you may want to give it a gander. It’s always clever, generally ironic, and a good source of obscure news that you wish you’d heard in the mainstream media.

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