Inglorious Bastard: a Few Thoughts on a Mr. Bernie Madoff

I love a Quentin Tarantino movie as much as the next person, but this is not a review of his upcoming film.

This is just a small rumination on Bernie Madoff. I did, however, look up the word inglorious, to make sure that I was using it correctly. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, Third edition, inglorious is an adjective 1. ignominious; disgraceful, 2. not famous or renowned

As we still endure the tremors of the global economic meltdown, one man holds a lot of the blame, Mr. Bernie Madoff.

Madoff, I am not going to do him the courtesy of a title, has pled guilty and is looking at 150 years in jail. Yet the on-going mystery is where is the money?

I know how to make $50 disappear- hello Barnes and Noble! But hundreds of millions- and not just the funds he kept recycling over and over in his Ponzi scheme- where did they go!?

Vanity Fair has written an exclusive article called, "Madoff's World" by a Mr. Mark Seal and Fortune magazine has recently published a special report entitled, "How Bernie Did It" by Mr. James Bandler and Mr. Nicholas Varchaver with Ms. Doris Burke

The old adage of keeping your friends closer and your enemies closer may not be as true as we once thought, perhaps it is with friends like Madoff, who needs enemies?

My thoughts and prayers, small as they may be, are with all of those who Madoff wronged.