If political/financial/sports journalist Matt Taibbi were writing the introduction to this slideshow, he would probably do something self-referential, exaggerated and parodic. Something like, “Throughout his aggressive, mischievous, occasionally drug-fueled career, Taibbi has made cunnilingus jokes about a secretary of state, found the lighter side in the death of a Pope and chronicled the historical role of capitalism’s overlords, the tentacled invertebrates at Goldman Sachs. He’s also written some books.” To explore Taibbi’s weird and unsettling but geisty oeuvre, check out The Observer‘s Matt Taibbi Primer.