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What's funny?

Posted by Harvey Ostroff on Monday, March 16, 2009,
In a depression such as this, laughter is hard to come by. There are a great many topics that are tabu while people are waiting for financial recovery or at the least, a few signs of stability. I hear no Geithner jokes or Bernanke jokes. Even Madoff, who 'made off' with so many people's life savings, has been mostly exempted from skewering by the comics. 

Those of us who are all right for the time being, and  I include myself on my teachers pension, are meeting at social gatherings and not t...

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Showing Tag: "comics" (Show all posts)

What's funny?

Posted by Harvey Ostroff on Monday, March 16, 2009,
In a depression such as this, laughter is hard to come by. There are a great many topics that are tabu while people are waiting for financial recovery or at the least, a few signs of stability. I hear no Geithner jokes or Bernanke jokes. Even Madoff, who 'made off' with so many people's life savings, has been mostly exempted from skewering by the comics. 

Those of us who are all right for the time being, and  I include myself on my teachers pension, are meeting at social gatherings and not t...

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