Those Dirty Bad-sters

Bernie Madoff, Washington Mutual, Goldman Sachs, the sub-prime mortgage rip off; new bad-sters pop up every day.

Corruption is just not as shocking as it once was.  These headlines have become the standard, and unfortunately for some, have become the new threshold of what constitutes fraud.

On an intellectual level, we know that the media presents us with big-name stories of multi-million dollar scams.  I don’t blame them for telling me when big-names steal gobs of cash.  It’s news worthy.  But has this caused us to lower the bar?