Mr. Chortler, it must be said, did not achieve his renown through his investing acumen. In fact, the heir to the Chortler publishing empire has presided over the downward slide from a once great media icon to the sorry Internet publication you see today.
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From the totally surreal department …

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Alan Greenspan and Hank Paulson, as two of the people most responsible for bringing the world’s financial system to the brink of the disaster and creating a bailout that mostly benefited the already rich and powerful on Wall Street and that will burden future generations with untold debt and all the while an enormous percentage of the population struggles to hold on to jobs (if they have not been lost already) and homes (ditto), it would be remiss of me not to ask you whether the Colts or the Saints are going to win this year’s Super Bowl.

And the American people have such a low regard for the mainstream media because … ?

There is a new movement currently being propelled by the support of former conservative commentator turned California gubernatorial candidate turned liberal blogger Arianna Huffiington, Bill Maher and others called Move Your Money. It’s catching on so fast that one of the organizers appeared with Stephen Colbert recently

Move Your Money is a campaign to take money out of the “too big to fail” Wall Street banks and bring it to Main Street banks. The site provides a search engine where one can find nearby banks with a high IRA bank rating. (No, we didn’t know what meant until a few seconds ago.)

So convinced are we at Chortler that we are going move the five dollars a month we make from the website to the closest small bank near our headquarters at the Walla Walla Greyhound Bus Terminal. Heck, even if it means giving up our ATM card, we still get that five bucks a month insured by the FDIC.