How to Stuff a Wild Enron  Everyone blames too little regulation
for the Enron mess, but maybe the culprit was too much  By P. J.
O'Rourke  Beyond a certain point complexity is fraud. It's the
Airline Ticket Price Axiom. Am I getting the best deal on my
airline ticket? How could I know? To map the labyrinth of
airline-ticket pricing structure I would have to spend a greater
value in time, at the minimum-wage billing rate, than the value
of the money I'd save. Or it's the Finnegans Wake Postulate. We
all know that Joyce, the old soak, was just scribbling a learned
version of what Jack Nicholson typed in The Shining.  Maybe
"complexity is fraud" doesn't apply to mathematics or the
physical sciences. Nevertheless, when someone creates a system
in which you can't tell whether or not you're being fooled,
you're being fooled. This is true in the intellectual food chain
from the fine arts, literature, and sociology on down.  And
Enron was pretty far down—down there among the cunning weasels
of ratiocination. What En