Pacific Gas & Electric has filed for bankruptcy, crippled by the likelihood the utility will have to pay billions for deaths and damage in recent California wildfires. And then there’s the bill for fires in 2017 that the company’s creaky infrastructure has also been blamed for. A judge overseeing the company excoriated it last week for what he called a “clear-cut pattern” of starting fires.

PG&E was a happier place the summer I interned there, years ago, working in the regulatory affairs shop. To be honest, “working” isn’t the right word. “Loafing” is more like it, and extravagant loafing at that.