{"id":1092,"date":"2005-04-29T10:55:43","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T17:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/04\/just_business\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:17:06","slug":"just_business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/04\/just_business.html","title":{"rendered":"JUST BUSINESS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/images\/kenlay.jpg\">Consider this from <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050428\/REVIEWS\/50413004\n\" target=\"new&quot;\" class=\"inline\"><b><font color=\"#003399\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s review<\/font><\/b><\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enronmovie.com\/\" target=\"new&quot;\" class=\"inline\"><font color=\"#003399\"><b>&#8220;Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room&#8221;<\/b><\/font><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The most shocking material in the film involves the fact that Enron cynically and knowingly created the phony California energy crisis. &#8230; If the crisis had been created by Al Qaeda, if terrorists had shut down half of California&#8217;s power plants, consider how we would regard these same events.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is not a political documentary. It is a crime story,&#8221; Ebert writes. &#8220;No matter what your politics, [it] will make you mad.&#8221; So why is Ken Lay, above, still smiling? Will the jury wipe the smile off his face when he comes to trial in the fall? Or will it say &#8220;Well done!&#8221; just as the dumbshit electorate did last fall for our Dear Leader?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this from Roger Ebert&#8217;s review of &#8220;Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room&#8221;: The most shocking material in the film involves the fact that Enron cynically and knowingly created the phony California energy crisis. &#8230; If the crisis had been created by Al Qaeda, if terrorists had shut down half of California&#8217;s power plants, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-hC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75748,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/75748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}