Boning Bonus

Talk about a stick in one's craw, how about those guys at AIG, and they are contractually obligated to pay - well in that case fine, its AOK with us as long as you are contractually obligated. Hell, why didn't you say so in the first place. We are socially obligated to tar and feather you in the media for your next ten lifetimes, and to draw asses on your face whenever one appears.

Now that's about as obscenely brazen, greedy, and obnoxious as it gets, not to mention tone deaf and generally obscene, not me, them.

Listening to NPR today, I wondered where such intense scrutiny was during the Iraq war buildup.

McClatchy: Obama to seek 'every legal avenue' to block AIG bonuses

"Under these circumstances, it's hard to understand how derivative traders at AIG warranted any bonuses, much less $165 million in extra pay," Obama said.