John W. Snow, President and CEO of CSX Corporation

President and Vice President of "Perks 'N' Smirks 'R' Us"

You Choo-Choo-Choose Me!?
12/10/02 - When Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill "resigned" last Friday, two mishaps (much like the gentlemen to the right) were reported with CSX trains on that very same day. One CSX train outside Rochester, NY had five cars derail, luckily, no injuries or spillage of its' coal cargo. Not so lucky was another CSX train outside Newberry, South Carolina, which saw 20 cars derail, spilling its cargo of coal onto U.S. Route 76, closing it for most of the day.

How awkwardly timed: coal (with Christmas only two weeks away) comes crashing out of CSX trains on the day the Bush Administration makes an opening in his Cabinet for the CEO of Crash, Spill, and eXplode.

Per protocol, the administration mulled over their key corporate comrades, matched names to the list of major corporate benefactors, and came up with John W. Snow as the new Treasury Secretary. Mr. Snow, after serving in the Ford Administration with Cheney and Rumsfeld, rode the deregulation train (can you find another deregulation pioneer on this list?) with CSX, eventually overseeing the entire operation.

The Snow job announcement triggered mixed reaction around the country, especially with the folks in Baltimore, and moreso in West Virginia. Perhaps they want the economy to run like a CSX runaway train?

We at Humor Is Dead realize that this appointment isn't quite as disgraceful or mismatched as the Kiss(inger) of Death on the independent [sic] commission to investigate 9/11. In a related story, Cardinal Law's office would not return our calls regarding potential career opportunities for the priestly pedophile pimp in Bush's Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Department. We really would not be surprised.