Maxed out

Last month I ridiculed a cocaine-ruined money launderer who tried to jack the Feds for a $15 trillion tax refund. This month we’ve got a number even more inconceivable: $23,148,855,308,184,500. That, according to MSNBC, is how much Visa erroneously charged several of its credit card customers. [...]

The best of the best

Good news, failed bankers. The CIA is collecting the worthless flotsam of the great ship Wall Street for “a mission like no other” — economic and financial analysis for the U.S. government! [...]

Who wants to be a trillionaire?

A man who tried to steal more money than the U.S. owes China was indicted this week. A no-brainer nominee for world’s dumbest criminal, Marlon T. Moore — also known as “X-Large Moore” — filed an income tax return that sought a refund of nearly $15 trillion, The Miami Herald reported today. [...]

Send in the clowns

It’s a New York state of mess. The New York State Senate — a corrupt, incompetent body even by the humiliating standards of state government — has been in turmoil all week because two Democrats defected, flipping a narrow 32-30 majority from the Democrats’ favor to the Republicans’. [...]

A page out of the Michael Steele playbook

If you dare, check out these terrible, terrible Dartmouth Republican rappers, Stiltz and Serious C (Christian names: Josh and David). [...]

What not to wear

How I’ve gone 28 years living without a towel I could wear as a tunic and a toga, I’ll never know. [...]