P.J. O’Rourke weighs in amongst the pages of The Weekly Standard:
In this period of gloom–with liberals seeking to make hay from capitalist foibles and our own capitalist foibles reduced in value to bales of ditto–it behooves us to look for a moment at the bright side of corporate corruption.
That is, assuming there’s any corruption. It may be semantics. When senators and representatives get together in Congress to fix prices on prescription drugs, they’re national heroes. When pharmaceutical company CEOs get together on the golf course to fix prices on prescription drugs, they’re indicted. . . .
One last cheering thought: Corporate corruption gives al Qaeda, Hezbollah, and other Muslim radicals second thoughts about messing with the United States. If we’ll screw our own grandmothers in the stock market, God knows what we’ll do to them.
Methinks we ought to spend a little more time working on that Congressional corruption angle, P.J. You’re slowing down since you got married and had kids. But this is a pretty good piece, if a bit short.