The Wall St. Journal reports that the Justice Department has selected a lawyer to consider an anti-trust challenge to Google’s growing advertising footprint.

Excuse me for a minute. I need to breathe before I get sick.

So here’s a company that creates a better mousetrap, doesn’t ask the mousetrap industry if it’s all right to sell their product, grabs the lion’s share of the mousetrap business, and leaves the industry wondering what happened. And the government’s response is “you can’t do that!” My heart bleeds for the poor, poor advertising industry.

W. T. F?

And you want to know what really gripes me? Why doesn’t this same agency go after the assholes running all the mortgage companies that you and I are now bailing out? These people laughed all the way to the bank, raking in millions of personal dollars while the industry took the economy into the sewer. You want to run a shady mortgage financing scheme? You belong in jail.

But that won’t happen. The fat cats are are part of the status quo, the same group that’s bawling about the nasty old new monopoly, Google.

I’m going to bed.

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