One of my favorite movies is a dark gangster movie starring Joe Pesci entitled "8 Heads in A Duffel Bag." Pesci, a mob courier is hired to transport the heads of eight murder victims to a mafia boss to prove that the “hits” had in fact taken place. Unfortunately and comically, the duffel bag becomes mixed up with a similar bag of a college student who is off on vacation. Pesci tries to find a way to get the heads back and what follows is a series of misadventures and hilarious incidents, as the heads keep turning up in unlikely locations such as an industrial clothes dryer. Yes, I said it was dark but my kind of humor.

Recalling this movie led me to believe that what with the current state of politics and the financial downturn we are experiencing, it may be time for some additional heads to roll.

Let’s start with all the mortgage executives who encouraged people to take out loans without even verifying their income or resources of the borrowers. People were led down a crimson path somehow believing that their modest incomes would allow them to occupy homes well out of their economic reach. The loans were structured so that the first couple of years were within their income. Once the higher interest rate was triggered, the mortgager usually ended up in default but by then these predator lenders had made their commission and had moved on to other victims. Time for their heads to be placed in a duffel bag!

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