Fearing reprisal from angry proles, some employees of Goldman Sachs have apparently begun packing heat.

Goldman probably deserves a fake award for being on at the forefront of all the most ridiculous stories of our age (see also: H1N1 vaccines, Doing God’s Work, the bubble machine, &c &c &c).

Matt Taibbi takes a closer look at the role of Goldman Sachs in, well, just about every American financial crack-up of the past century. As usual, he presents a pretty compelling, if not appalling, case.