"Please, Mr Taxman, leave our rich corporate masters alone!"

It's Tea Bag Day!

I hope you're all taking to the streets with your boxes of Red Rose and Lipton.  Oh, I forgot.  Most of you are sane and sensible and blessed with a gift for recognizing irony.  Then I guess like James Wolcott you're on your way out to infiltrate and disrupt the protests.

The streets are going to be filled---or at least mildly congested---with a whole lot of regular folks whom rich people despise as losers protesting against raising taxes slightly on the rich people who think of them as losers.

In gratitude the rich are toasting their defenders with Korbel Brut and taking back every thing they said about their being losers.

Their new preferred word is "suckers."

If the Tea Baggers had been alive in 1773, they'd have taken to the streets to protest that the King needed to quarter more troops in their homes, the Stamp Act didn't go far enough, and tea was just too darn cheap as it was.

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[Batocchio]

Once, those CEOs were so poor they had to drink their wine out of a box.

[actor212]

I live-blogged the NYC event.

Only, like most of the protestors, I couldn't be bothered to show up.