Outrage
Today I’m recommending you read this open letter to AIG. It was cathartic reading it, so it must have been cathartic writing it. Melanie put a breathtaking human face to the story and now, I’m going to add another one:
I like her ending, only I wouldn’t have been so polite as to use asterisks. I’m too blinded by rage to even locate the asterisk key when I think about the futures stolen by these unscrupulous, relentless crooks who are now suing the US government for…back…taxes…
Yeah, those closing expletives are so, so hard to resist. But they really do detract from the (usually) very clever and witty prose that preceeds them.
Me? I ended up going with the “somber, but funny analogy” in my take on this subject: (http://www.broofa.com/blog/2009/03/the-tarp-volley/)