More Great Meg Whitman News!

Ned's friends of long standing are aware of his unabashed pride in the successes of the self-made men and women of the Sneering Plutocracy. Today comes word that Ned can report with vicarious pleasure, nay, glee, that one of his favorite Sneering Plutocrats, former eBay "CEO" Meg Whitman, has soared to new heights. His friends will recall that Whitman suffered a slight setback when she spent $180 million of "her" money (read, money skewered from the flesh of eBay customers, employees and stockholders, not to mention taxpayers given that she pays taxes at a lower rate than Warren Buffett's secretary) in a failed attempt to buy--er, be elected to the governorship of Gullyvornia, losing by 13 points to septegenarian Jerry Brown. Recently Ned had taken heart that Whitman has partially recovered from this disappointment by being named to the Board of HP, thus allowing her to rake in hundreds of thousands a year by meeting four times a year, and rubber stamping the dictates of the CEO. Today, Ned is informed that she has been named to the Board of Zipcar as well! Thus, by doing nothing, she has been awarded another million or so a year, while millions grub for worms under rocks and hundreds of thousands live on park benches and under bridges. Is this a great country or what?