No, Doug, it's not celebrating the failure of a company. Heaven knows, all the Enron employees and investors who watched helplessly as their retirement portfolios went into the toilet when the (possibly, allegedly) criminal actions of the corporate leaders was uncovered...they're not celebrating. All of us hippie-liberal-commie-pinko-radical types are making jokes about this because we're angry. And we're not just angry because the people who ran Enron appear to have thumbed their noses at their employees and their investors, and the law. We're angry because (1) they appear to have PROFITED HUGELY by thumbing their nose at their employees and investors and the law, and (2) it's beginning to look like they may have used the elected and appointed officials of the Federal Government to help them do so--and those elected and appointed officials may have profited in return for that help. And my personal opinion is that someone who supports the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt should be angry as hell when people who claim to represent that party try to turn MY government into the private agent of any person or corporation.

I really hope, Doug, that you'll listen to what is being said here and not just dismiss it as "so much liberal talk". You strike me as a person who values integrity and honesty more than political labels, and it's integrity and honesty that have been trampled here, or so it's beginning to appear. I fully understand why so many people were so appalled at Clinton's sexual shenanigans (although I may have disagreed with their conclusions). Please try to understand why so many people are appalled at what is being uncovered here.

Aloha (and I mean that),
Mark