Where's My Violin for this Sad Sob Story?

Invictus at Blah3 shares this very sad tale from Exxon:

Only made $8 BILLION for the quarter on revenues of "only" $89 BILLION.

Invictus also brings us this:

Nice. Making money selling your Dad's company short:

The son of former Enron chairman Ken Lay was selling the company's stock short at a time when Lay and the company's then-CEO, Jeff Skilling, were railing against short-sellers and complaining they were driving the company's stock price down, a federal prosecutor said in court here this morning.

Gee, I wonder what the son knew?