Reply #20: For those who missed this great DU essay the first time around...

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Of Members and Markets
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/08/07_members.html

Corporate malfeasance. Crashing stock market. Tropical paradises used for tax avoidance. Shareholders skinned and 401(K)s shriveled. Terrible happenings all, but what on earth could have caused these calamities? If you're a reasonably honest, intelligent person, you might attribute a rash of corporate misdeeds to free market snake oil, rampant deregulation and that now-famous "irrational exuberance." However, if you're a round-the-bend Republican conservative, you subscribe to a much simpler theory: Clinton's penis did it.

Which gets me to thinking - that must be some penis.

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