Puffin’s Place

• Some of those “failed” firms to which we taxpayers have given billions are, in turn, handing millions over as bonuses to departing administrators? I guess the appropriate mantra is: where Congress lacks the foresight to impose restraint, shame is inoperative.

• The media is treating Sarah Palin as if she is the oracle at Delphi! Brewing moose chili or centering chagrined Republican govs, she is holding forth in her typical regressive and incoherent manner. Her thoughts on current issues are being breathlessly reported. What on earth gives?

• The auto industry makes environmentally unfriendly cars and loses to the Asian manufacturers. And then they ask us to give them money for the cars we refused to buy.

• The Bush Administration seems disinterested in letting us know where this money is going. I darkly suspect that Brown & Root will soon purchase an entire country. If it has not already.

• Obama’s ethics rules (see change.gov) actually preclude lobby folk from working on the transition and lobbying simultaneously. annus mirabilis.

• Weird civility or some political machination keeps silly Joe Lieberman a committee chair and a member of the Democrat party. Personally, I would like to see him kicked down the Capital steps. Yet another reason my name was on no ballots.