From former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's spokesperson, explaining how Hank Paulson didn't bail out AIG because it would help (or, you know, actually save) his former employer, Goldman Sachs: "Suggesting that A.I.G. was saved for the sake of one firm is as ridiculous as saying firemen put out a fire in a skyscraper to protect just one of the thousands of people in the building."

Hoo, boy, I didn't read Matt Taibbi's latest from yesterday until just now. "Can you imagine what a craven, bumlicking ass-goblin you'd have to be to get a job working for the Wall Street Journal, not mention up front that you used to be a Goldman, Sachs managing director, and then write a lengthy article calling your former boss a "national hero" – in the middle of a sweeping financial crisis, one in which half the world is in a panic and the unemployment rate just hit a 25-year high?" OH IT GOES ON. And quite rightly!