Every large-government power- grabber since FDR has invoked Keynes' name and bastardized his insights, including Richard Nixon ("We're all Keynesians now").

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Future Leonard Skinners, as in the Jacksonville gym teacher and coach whose former students bastardized his name into Lynyrd Skynyrd, need not apply.

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What we have now is not capitalism but a bastardized version where our distribution of wealth and income is worse than in many Third World nations.

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Rather, the emphasis is on the people and organizations who shaped then bastardized Prohibition by manipulating Presidents, Congresses and the public, and by fomenting anti-immigrant sentiment and fears of urbanism.

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The elitist, idealistic and hegemonic sentiment expressed here has cheaper, bastardized shades of what Peter Thiel (who profited amazingly from the Facebook IPO) wrote for the National Review a while back.

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Sure, include a remastered soundtrack and make them look all spiffed up for the Blu-Ray, but give us the old films back, not the new bastardized versions Lucas foisted upon us for no good reason other than vanity and boredom.

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Typically, these notes (also frequently referred to as Employee Forgivable Loans or EFLs) are bastardized versions of bonuses but for the fact that the employer firm pointedly takes exception to characterizing the payments as fully earned bonuses and is typically meticulous to draft the written documentation as a loan supported by promissory notes that are forgiven on anniversaries of employment.

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