Thursday, September 25, 2008

Bee Gees, "Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)"

A tribute to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, AIG, and the glories of underregulation of a free-market economy, since Wall Streeters can be counted on to do the right thing in the absence of oversight. Fannie, be tender with my loan!

(If you still think deregulation of Wall Street and privatization of Social Security are good ideas, I'd love to hear you explain away this decade of nonsense.)

PS: A word or two about the song itself: What a glorious absurdity it is. Thanks to the wonders of multitracking, I think I hear six or seven Bee Gees on this, each soaring higher and higher like a vocal Icarus. And who doesn't love a tender Fanny?

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