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Address the anger. The public is mad about having to bail out the financial institutions who got the world into this mess - and the recent revelations about payouts to fat-cat executives at AIG, RBS and elsewhere are stoking the anger. It's time for some symbolic action. One suggestion: an agreement that every firm receiving taxpayers' money should pay its employees the same as other public-sector workers, such as teachers. That would assuage public fury, and provide an incentive for the banks and insurers in question to sort out their problems fast...
Read "The AIG Bonuses: Getting Mad and Getting Even...
...hanging, drawing, and quartering of former Crimson President Jim Cramer '77 by John Stewart. While we're pleased Stewart has found a new target after his best buddy rode off into the sunset, FlyBy still holds a soft spot for Cramer from its days watching Mad Money as a budding i-banker (pre-crisis, of course) and this infamous clip. Yes, we still hate Bill Poole to this...
...yourself. You earned nothing; you did nothing with your life. Your life was ultimately about inflicting pain, taking what you could and holding on to it like a common thief. You understood the irony of it all too, those thousands of false statements representing your false life, a great, mad construction you slowly began to embrace up in your secretive 17th-floor fantasy world, the way a young boy believes he's Superman when he puts on a cape. The difference is you never grew up, Mr. Madoff, and we're all paying for it now. But maybe because...
...opportunity to tell embarrassing stories about him. "He always liked to get naked. Anybody that lived in his fraternity house would tell you. And yes, he is a frat boy, no matter how much he would go screaming from that now," says sportscaster Joe Buck, who, along with Mad Men star Jon Hamm, has known Rudd since their college days. Buck says the ass-slapping, gun-shooting dance Rudd did with Beyoncé when he hosted Saturday Night Live in November was his typical way of leaving a room in college. He built on those skills when he moved...