Layed To Rest

Ex-Enron CEO and convicted thief Ken Lay died suddenly yesterday of a massive coronary. He was sixty-four.

You can just hear the fever-swamp conspiracists warming up, cantcha? As in, "Lay was finally going to turn state's evidence against Bush (the REAL mastermind behind the Enron plot), so he had the Bushtapo 'silence' him!"

That's already out there, I'm sure. Although there's no shortage of tasteless hostility still percolating for Lay himself.

I'm not sure if being the Jim McDougal of the Bush era is quite what he had in mind as an epitaph. But now that's the best he'll be able to afford.