Bernie Madoff's "Twinkie" Defense: BPD

That's "Borderline Personality Disorder" for the psychologically unaffiliated.

And that--not a deep, persistent, pathological dishonesty--was what made Bernie Madoff a crook.

He couldn't help himself.

I've always loved how, if you're high enough in the hierarchy, you can be forgiven anything at all.

Sure, people who invested in his scheme had to ignore the old maxim--that if it seems too good to be true, it probably IS--and by doing so, brought their fate on themselves. Still, it takes a thief...

Breaking!:

NEW YORK: Bernard Madoff, the New York financier who the authorities say has confessed to a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, will not be going to jail even though he failed to meet the original terms of his $10 million bail agreement.

U.S. government prosecutors said they had modified the terms of Madoff's agreement so that he would not need to find four people to co-sign his bond. Madoff was unable to meet that condition, prosecutors said. Even his sons, Andrew and Mark, were apparently unwilling to help. A lawyer for the sons said they were unaware of the scheme and were cooperating with the authorities.

This invites the next question: Why does the thieving, lying motherfucker have any resources left at all? Why haven't they all been peremptorily confiscated?

And in that foto (courtesy Shannon Stapleton/Reuters), he sure doesn't look too contrite, do he?