I swear I'm way more shallow than this...

So this is a blog dedicated to pop culture/fashion/media/etc. but today I'm going to discuss something a little bit more serious: the stock market!

Except I don't think that the stock market is more serious than like I Love Money on VH1. The same kind of moral degradation in search of huge piles of cash happens but on Wall Street the contestants are gambling with our entire economy instead of just hoping for a boob job à la Pumkin.


I feel like the idiot managers at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were a lot like this money grubbing whore. They made obviously poor decisions (like buying mortgages that weren't exactly sub-prime, but lets face it everyone knew the housing bubble was going to burst eventually), they used their feminine wiles (okay, lobbyists) to get more money than they should have based on talent or performance, and they manipulated and lied to keep from getting voted off...or regulated, or whatever.

Okay, so maybe this metaphor is a little bit strained, but I think in some way its apt. Is our culture materialistic, shallow, and fake because of reality TV or is reality TV so debased because our society is? When the people making the most money ever can be compared to a bimbo who competed for Flavor Flave's love, then how do we get our priorities straight? Maybe it's time to take a serious look at our culture and say that the seriously fucked up stuff happening in the halls of power might be setting the tone for our completely debased pop culture and not the other way around.

Luckily for you, this blog isn't really going to get into that stuff. Mostly I'm going to talk about the completely debased culture so enjoy but in my wildest dreams I'd hope you take the stuff you read here and think about it in relationship to serious news. You never know, there might be a connection you never would have seen before.

Today's Trashbags:
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
Pumkin