Posted 5:26 PM by Gene

The latest from the psychosis that is big business:

American's Passengers Cranky, Investors Confident

We may assume the passengers aren't investors and the investors aren't passengers. Whatever works.

OR:

"We have obviously failed to complete the airworthiness directive to the precise standards that the FAA requires, and I take full responsibility for that," Gerard Arpey, American's chief executive, said at an industry event in California.

And I'll take full responsibility in a year when high fuel prices drive our competitors out of business and we're rolling in dough, BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Or something like that.

And from the psychosis that is politics:

"What responsibility does the senior leadership of the FAA bear for letting this situation spiral out of control?" asked Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., of FAA administrator Nick Sabatini. "Is this one of those things like ABU GHRAIB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! where you sort of get rid of the people way down low but nobody up top ever has to be accountable?" [Overemphasis added]

Yep, I think ol' Rocky has a customer-service initiative too -- with the guys who win the Pulitzers, and flash the red lights on their cameras. Put Rocky and LIAR LIAR in a room together and you'd never know who told the first lie.