| Big, ugly NYC skyscrapers |
Giant pits on Wall Street |
| Crash and burn IPOs |
DNA body part matching |
| Annoyingly spunky Internet startups with too much cash and no business plan |
Soulless multi-nationals with too much cash and a plan for TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION |
| Huge CEO salaries and stock options |
Huge CEO salaries and stock options cleverly hidden with accounting tricks |
| Corporate accounting tricks |
Better corporate accounting tricks |
| Overt corporate lying, stealing and hypocrisy |
New improved corporate lying, stealing and hypocrisy - now with government approved stealth technology |
| Massive military spending |
Even more massive military spending |
| Mutual Assured Destruction |
Unilateral Assured Destruction of anyone we don't like, guaranteeing our safety. Unless, of course, they have box cutters |
| Balanced budgets - if you ignore little things like future Social Security obligations |
Deficits - plus even bigger Social Security funding problems |
| Lesbian Attorney General that obviously had only glanced at US Constitution, but never really read it |
Religious nutcase Attorney General that uses the US Constitution for toilet paper and prefers a nation of laws to a nation of people |
| Happy, Gay Nineties |
Dull, Dreary and Depressing Oughts |
| War on Drugs |
Never ending War on Terrorism and an even more vicious and never ending War on Drugs |
| A President that pretended to care and at least entertained us with his Oval Office sexual escapades |
A President that would prefer all the non-rich, non-white folks to leave the country and last had sex sometime during the Reagan era |
| Lip service paid to personal freedoms |
National ID cards |
| Free Speech - sometimes |
We can't let the terrorists win — so shut up |
| Displaying the flag |
Figuring out how to take the damn flag down without the neighbors noticing |
| Personal Computers that can play any software, music or videos the user wishes |
Personal Computers that can only use software, music and videos "approved" by corporations |
| Rainbow colored flags |
Rainbow colored terrorist alert stoplights |
| Corporate control of politicians with large cash bribes disguised as soft money campaign contributions |
Ultra brief suspension of politician bribing while corporate lawyers look for new loopholes |
| White collar criminals stealing Millions and not going to jail |
White collar criminals stealing Billions and not going to jail |
| Decades with catchy sounding nicknames |
The Oughties |
| Bloodshed in the Middle East |
More bloodshed in the Middle East |
| Americans quite happy not knowing where in the hell Afghanistan was |
Americans worried as hell about Afghanistan |
| Remnants of the 1st Amendment |
Copyright and Commerce Clauses |
| Suck, Feed, Salon, CNN, CNet, Wired, Slashdot, Plastic, FoxNews... |
Pigdog Journal |
