Tue Jan 22 2002 17:31:
Nancy and I passed Houston's new ballpark, Enron Field. Yaaaaah! I asked her if a movement were afoot to change the name of the field, and she said it's quite a disappointment that unfortunate reference can never be elminated because "The Agreement" was to name the place Enron Field. Huh. A younger and less cynical me would have also thought that "The Agreement" might also have included not cheating/shafting/screwing the lower echelon workers. No such Agreement. No such company.
I parody Aldonza's lament from Man of La Mancha:
One set of books
Is like another
I don't know why
Or who's to blame
They'll dump on you
Or on your brother
It's all the same
It's all the same.
I have learned
That when the stock falls
No bailout comes
(No White Knight came)
It proves to me
Behind the eight balls
It's all the same
It's all the same.
Sheesh. I'm becoming even more of a Marxist.
The front page of today's Houston Chronicle included a story about a laid-off Enron worker who observed the wholesale shredding of financial documents and used boxes of shreds she took from the hallways to pack and transport her personal belongings. She has now turned these shards over to the court. Duh-oh.
If we can't have the White Knight, can we at least have the Red Queen?