“Surprisingly moving Barack Obama music videos? The potential end of the writer’s strike? Cute young deer being saved by helicopters? No no no no no. Here are your most deeply inspiring news stories of the month: A flurry of pink slips fluttered over the job sector as corporate payrolls were sliced like sour pie. Foreclosures are skyrocketing and new home sales across the nation are plummeting faster than Britney Spears’ serotonin levels. A nasty recession is either creeping or flooding in, depending on your perspective and how recently you purchased your home and/or tried to dump your Google stock. Meanwhile, the largest corporation in the world, the one which has consistently raked in the largest and most appalling profits of any organization on Earth … has recently posted the largest profit of any company in American history.” [editor’s note: Although he uses the word “capitalism” (connoting some variation on “free market” to most folks?) to describe this, where “feudal mercantilism” would be far more appropriate, the analysis is otherweise spot-on - SAT] (02/06/08)