UFBF: Bernie Madoff

I mean, really.

This is the Alternate Universe

Is that not true? Could you imagine that we are in anything like a universe that makes sense?

Masters of the Universe lend big money to field-hands to buy overpriced housing.

Bernie Madoff "Made off" with $50 Billion in a twenty year Ponzi scheme.

Car sales are 2/3 of what they were a year ago.

Gasoline goes from $4.30 per gallon to $1.75 in less than six months (and oil from $150/bbl to less than $40 in the same time frame). And can go down to a buck soon.

Daily three-digit DOW swings up and down.

The Fed/Government running printing presses like they were in Zimbabwe.

The governor of Illinois selling Obama's senate seat to the highest bidder -- and this is the second governor in a row that ends up being a crook.

Housing values falling 30% in a year.

Democrats stealing elections in Minnesota.

401Ks down by 1/2.

There is a book by Frederic Brown called "What Mad Universe" in which a pulp sci-fi mag editor wakes up in a world invented/imagined by one of his teen-aged fans. Frederic Brown is one of my favorite authors, and for a while, this book was my favorite book. I love the idea of parallel universes and alternate planes, and this book treats the concept wonderfully, and with humor. The world is almost the same, except with addition of what a teen-aged boy's concept of the Ideal would be -- all women dressed like bomb-shells, regular rocket ships to the moon, villainous circumstances to overcome.

I feel like we entered this alternate universe, only except for being dreamed up by a teenager, it has been dreamed up by extremely greedy and/or stupid people. Teenagers grow up. Unfortunately, this is not always true of the stupid and greedy.