Mammon: a Chaldee or Syriac word meaning "wealth" or "riches"; also, by personification, the god of riches: "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." (Matt. 6:24).

What Jesus is driving at here is Mammon = the opposite of God. Which is bad - well... it depends which side of the issue you're on. This issue, our theme is "Mammon", and so we planned out great articles on greed, corporate whores, Alan Greenspan, etc. But the best laid plans of mice and Fed editors come to the same end, especially since mice don't take a long view but are present-focused thinkers. So we wrote about other stuff, because that's what we do. Because we're "subversive". A triad of reporters did go down to the protests in D.C., so there's some Mammon-related prose lurking around this piece of paper that you, gentle reader, hold in your trembling hands. And who wants to read about Alan Greenspan anyway? He's a corporate whore. Not really, but I just like saying "corporate whore". Ironically, I'm not actually saying it. Note: for best effect read this and all other publications aloud.

Anyway, Jesus says that the pursuit of riches is the opposite of the pursuit of God. Is this startling evidence that God underestimated the stupidity of human beings, some of whom choose between the pursuit of God and the pursuit of the Devil? Or is He suggesting that money = Satan? I think so. In that case, Alan Greenspan = Lucifer.