Just as Ken Lay was about to be sentenced to twenty-five years or so in the clinker and his remaining assets were about to be seized by the government, he had a fatal heart attack.
While we are saddened by the fatal vascular accident, we cannot but help notice that he couldn’t have timed it more deftly.
Now the government’s case will likely be dismissed, preserving his family and heirs from having the relatively few millions that remain in his once overstuffed treasure chest being subject to the long arm of the law.
While fellow feeling reminds us that his family is certainly extremely saddened and would rather he were still kicking up his heels, even if behind bars, they too must occasionally be alert to the glimmer inside that they may have been spared much pain and poverty by the extraordinary timeliness of his legal bypass.
Tom Attea, humorist and creator of NewsLaugh.com, has had six shows produced Off-Broadway and has written comedy for TV. Critics have called his writing ""delightfully funny" and "witty" with "good, genuine laughs." |
|
