Seriously?

TIME is running a feature called '25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis' - you can puruse short profiles, including a caraciture headshot in front of a prison background and then vote on a scale of 1-10 on whether they are guilty or innocent. Featured are Phil Gramm, The American Consumer, Bush, and, interestingly, the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao. Wen is implicated as the dealer of cheap credit to the Americans, who are similarly blamed for being such junkies. Does this mean we're going to undertake an expensive and wasteful War on Chinese Holders of US Treasury Bonds (Just Say NO to T-Bills!) to protect ourselves from this dangerous menace?

Seriously? I can't even add anything to how insanely stupid this piece is. Now even revered organs of the press are joining overzealous congresspeople in the great financial crisis snipe hunt. I'm waiting for the cover of TIME with a dollar sign and a big red 'x' over it in blood, as they've famously done for Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and more recently, al-Zarqawi (that seems like reaching). Actually, TIME has been horrible ever since they named 'You' the person of the year. You didn't deserve it.