Hey U.S. Gov’t! Buy my crap!

This, buymyshitpile.com. ’Cause, if a bank can do it, why not us?

 Use the form below to submit bad assets you’d like the government to take off your hands. And remember, when estimating the value of your 1997 limited edition Hanson single CD “MMMbop”, it’s not what you can sell these items for that matters, it’s what you think they are worth. The fact that you think they are worth more than anyone will buy them for is what makes them bad assets.

Wonderful. I would like to have the $1,000 I put in Pacific Ethanol a few years ago. Thanks to this administration’s foresight (and a few other things related to underdeveloped technology and poor economic planning from Bush & Co., namely, putting federal money to it), I got nothin. I got a half dead plant that might go for at least $500. Eh?

Ugh.

And why aren’t we seeing any Wall Street Suicides? And a little slice of Freakonomics:

Meanwhile, I’m watching the underrated (imdb says) Silverado on AMC. And sipping good Iowa Whiskey. It’s the square dancin’ scene. I hear a jawharp. Oh, wait, a bar fight.

And Paden gets his horse back.

I’d rather go be a cowboy. But I’ll settle for just being kinda badass. A horse would be neat, too.