Thursday, February 02, 2006

Diversion For a Thursday Night

And so the Ken Lay/Enron trial begins....

"Kenny Boy" Lay compared to....

Perov's "Portrait of the Merchant Ivan Kamynin" (1872)
(The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)


The Ballad of Kenneth Lay*

Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Ken;
A proud CEO, quite a leader among men!
Then one day, with a cadre of his crooks,
He went off to work and started cookin' up the books.

Accounting, that is,
Kickback gold,
Texas greed.


* Think "Beverly Hillbillies" for the tune


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