The 20 Best Goldman Sachs Elevator Gossip Tweets

Believe it or not, Twitter actually can be good for something beyond revealing in 140 characters or less which of your friends needs to get out more. Case in point: Goldman Sachs Elevator Gossip. Blurring the line between the hilariously farcical and scarily factual, no one knows for sure if the blog’s submissions are true or not. And for that matter, no one really knows the man responsible for the blog, either, beyond the fact that he does work for Goldman. But sometimes there’s more truth in fiction, and if these cynical, steeped-in-gilded-greed conversations tell us anything, it’s that no amount of recession can kill corporate megalomania. Might as well laugh about it?

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The Good Ole American-Western European Values Gap

A tendency toward the militaristic. An obsession with the individual and a phobia of the state. Sometimes, as The Pew Research Center shows, stereotypes on American values are true. Survey conductors randomly sampled 1,000 individuals from each country included in the study (and there are five of them); and the results are quite compelling:

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When Does A Crime Become A Scandal?

The sad thing is that if you have enough money, it’s not even a scandal anymore; it’s life as normal.

Miley Cyrus Twerking On Things We Actually Should Be Talking About

We’re about to entrench ourselves in another decade of shit–this time in Syria. Oh, and it’s been revealed that the massive deregulation of the banking sector–that, you know, instigated the 2007 financial meltdown–was planned, and one of the key minds behind that is a contender to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. And what the hell is going on in Egypt? Is democracy really being fulfilled when brute military force overthrows a fairly-elected leader after a year and then tries to squelch the cries of those who rightly oppose what the military has done? We can talk about that later–did you see Miley Cyrus on the VMAs? Mindful of this, Miley Twerking On Reality was born. If she twerks on it, maybe we’ll give a shit.

Twerkin’ On Syrian Rebels

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How To Get Rich, According To The Rich

As you might imagine, it has nothing to do with the increased opportunities that privilege tends to afford you. Correspondingly, all poor people are poor because they are lazy, lack gumption and are constantly negative. Right?