And no, the fat cat to whom I’m referring is not Richard Fuld, the former president of Lehman Brothers who received obscene amounts of money for driving that bank into bankruptcy. I mean a literal fat cat, who goes by the name of Mosby. Mosby is trying to lose weight, and he is keeping a blog of his progress.
Well, actually, he’s keeping a blog of his lack of progress because he can no more resist eating kitty treats than Richard Fuld could resist taking home tens of millions of dollars in spite of incompetent performance. The URI of Mosby’s blog is walkingottoman.blogspot.com/ — and yes,Mosby does indeed look like a walking ottoman.
…Richard Fuld could resist taking home tens of millions of dollars in spite of incompetent performance.
The fools here are those who paid the incompetent peformer, not the performer himself (who actually seems pretty savvy in that context).
And that points to the crux of the matter. Who should judge competent performance: the perfomers judge themselves as you mistakenly suggest happened? the customers paying for the performance? or an external party i.e. the gov?
I’ll stick with the customers. It’s a power thing and this power best left in the hands of the customers…dumb as they sometimes are…
Someone should teach Mosby how to play FETCH. Like I do. Burns a buncha calories really really fast. Then you can EAT a LOT!!!
Love, Me
(OWEN)
Bill @ 1 — Sorry, Bill, from a minister’s perspective Fuld is guilty of greed. Human beings are moral agents capable of making moral decisions — and also capable of engaging in immoral actions. The real question is whether it’s fair to compare poor Mosby to Fuld — it’s not clear to me whether cats are moral agents in the same way humans are.
Owen @ 2 — I can’t wait to come out and play fetch with you again. Wait, I’ll throw a ball from here [fakes throw] — there it goes!
I got it! I got it! [Jean told me to fake a catch. *sigh* It’s NOT the same.]