Andrew Liveris has become a punch line

The joke about the head of Dow Chemical Co. goes like this:

“What is Liveris spelled backwards? Sir Evil.”

So writes Joe Nocera in the NY Times.

Nocera is sympathetic to Dow's plight, though there's not much sympathy on Wall Street and in legal circles.

Timing is everything in most things and the timing of Liveris has been lousy.