Posted 5:17 PM by Gene

If it's SUNDAY it must be BIG-DOUBLE-A-SCRIBBLE TIME:

1. You're not listening, PARTIALLY NATIONALIZED BANKS:

"The investment that the U.S. taxpayer has made in Bank of America represents an obligation to pay back to the taxpayers with a premium," said BofA spokesman Joe Goode. "And the only way that we're going to be able to pay back all our shareholders is pursuing business activities, like our relationship with the sport industry, that allow us to generate earnings."

TRANSLATION: We generate earnings by having the CEO and other high-mucky-muck execs put their feet on the luxury box railings and then return to the office for three months to scream, "I WAS AT THE [fill in the blank] AND YOU WEREN'T -- AND THANK GOD NEITHER WERE THOSE @#$%&* TAXPAYERS!!!!!"

YOU'RE NOT LISTENING, CLODS.

2. One does not wish unemployment on anyone, and of the 18,700 the "media and advertising" biz allegedly laid off in December (for a grand total of 65,100 in this...recession) many were good solid people. But to the extent the biz is hit with layoffs, as with the banks, as with the brokerages, it is less opportunity to swagger for a while.

3. MICKEY D changed its last name to Starbucks just as that overpriced overexposed NPR of coffees started on a downslide. We hope the Mick is stuck with thousands of underused cappuccino machines. That it is schmoozing with fashion types to plug its version of the NPR of coffees would indicate the Mick is as tone-deaf as ever.

4. Today, a week after it ended, the Ranceoids still obsess over THE GREATEST GAME IN THE HISTORY OF ALL THE ORGANISMS THAT EVER LIVED. Okay, Denny's got its big PR stunt. Let's see if the customers come back to a chain with a history of quality problems. And as for E*Trade, isn't this the same dollar-stock outfit you Ranceoids boasted proved ADVERTISING WORKS!!!!!!!!!!?

5. TRANSLATION: While one less day of mail delivery stinks, we must look at the bright side: It's one less day of junk mail.

6. Do you think we could stop referring to that stupid AQUATIC GEEK as a BRAND?