Wonkette
Goddammit are rich people still getting rich these days? Observe: Google’s top four executives received million-dollar-plus bonuses last year — a truly repulsive amount when everybody else in the country is starving. Wait, what’s that you say? They haven’t asked for a bailout yet? WELL BUT STILL. [AP]
I’s in yer intarnet, steelin yer adsense chex…
…everytime you Google yourself, a kitten is euthanized!
Octocat?
From the headline and the photo, I thought the story was going to be about actual cats whose website had earned millions in either ad revenue or merchandise sales. Which I would have believed.
AngryBlakGuy: …or does it make you go blind and hair grow on your palms?!
Google is the truck that carries the series of tubes.
Goddamnit, this torch wants to set SOMETHING on fire.
Hey SKS–you’re one to complain. Ever heard of Google image search? Those lolcats don’t make themselves. The Google execs deserve the big bucks–otherwise who would provide us with all the free bukakke pics?!!
I looked it up in Lycos and couldn’t find anything about the Google. What is it?
“I 8 teh Gewglez.”
They’ll need a bailout next month.
Next Christmas my bonus is going to be a chicken wing in my hobo soup! Yummm!
Red Zeppelin: Free bukakke pics? You mean I’ve been making my own for no reason all this time.
Part of Google’s money comes from secret arms deals with China.
My bonus this year is being okay with my alcoholism, and whooping cough.
Feh. Pussies.
Don’t worry, Dear Leader Barack will confiscate it all.
AngryBlakGuy: Wait, when you say “google yourself” do you mean the one that takes 1 hand or 2?
V572625694: Just a bunch of yahoos.
Google’s profits rose 37% in 2007, and these guys got about $1.68 million in bonuses. Then last year Google’s profits rose a mere 1%, and their bonuses went down about 3%. The moral — you guys were workin’ too hard in 2007. Suckerrrrrz!
I can haz rich pussie?
BruceLee5000: Unemployment cat is not amused.
Not ‘be[ing] evil’ is not being profitable enough anymore…
The Dow is up 1.20 points to 6,500! Yeah we’re all rich again!
Fat cats take their bonuses entirely in lasagna.
Google might be doing fine now but that won’t continue when everybody cuts their internet connection to save money and converts their laptops into plan sheet metal to help line the tin shacks we’ll all be living in.
Come here a minute: mine prefers tuna, actually.
Hooray For Anything: The internet will live on in the hobo-future, even if I have to go all Johnny Appleseed with tomato cans and string.
Come here a minute: A Garfield reference… well played.
Don’t worry. One day, that cat will feed a family of seven hobos.
NoWireHangers: …personally, it a 2 HAND job for me! But then again you know what they say about us black guys!
Sussemilch: Sorry, but it already has been done: it all started with wandering vogelbard Johnny Googleseed, who rode the rails with Woody, Pete, Cisco and Woz while composing folksongs on his MacBook and astrally projected himself into countless Internet searches throughout the galaxy (hey, back then, when they said “dancing with the stars,” they meant it, dude; it was the Sixties). Project yourself far enough and fast enough, and you’d be able to see them, too, just like Weird Al Einstein said — sort of like Casey Jones in the Dead song, ridin’ that train.
Doglessliberal: Mine likes steamed broccoli.
lawrenceofthedesert: Thanks for spoiling the “Battlestar Galactica” finale for me.
I take that the 1.38 billion dollar bonus in the 7th paragraph is a misprint. Everyone else only got million dollar bonuses. Meh, million, billion I’m not getting any.
Without a doubt, one day Google will take over the world. Without a doubt.
Damn Googles. I’m going to spread my wealth to America-On-Line (AOL) now.