Matt Taibbi’s vampire-squid piece has apparently lit a bonfire under the asses of Goldman Sachs bashers everywhere. Not-so-flattering pieces on GS are popping up everywhere. Outlets like Huffington Post, True Slant, and Mother Jones are officially all-over this topic. Even the smallest slip-ups and conflicts of interest are getting in-depth coverage (at least in non-traditional media). A welcome change, to say the least.

For example: On Friday I counted 8 Goldman-critical pieces on Huff Po’s biz home page simultaneously. A blog-search for “goldman sachs” on google will provide hundreds more examples. Mainstream outlets like Time are even getting in on it (in a more restrained way), with pieces like this one, which was featured on Yahoo’s homepage yesterday, “Goldman Sachs’ Financial Boom: A Political Mess for Obama?”

I think Bearish News has published some decent dirt on Goldman in our day, done our share of muckraking. So in the spirit of a good old-fashioned dogpile, I present our finest Goldman Sachs material in chronological order. Skip the first few if you follow this stuff obsessively. But #4 and #6 might surprise even veteran GS conspiracy-theorists.

#1 (1/28/09) – Geithner’s Chief of Staff is Ex-Goldman – “No conflict of interest there. Mr. Geithner’s pick, Mark Patterson, just left Goldman in April. I had hoped for a more unbiased team from Mr. Obama. But this seems like a blatant departure from his pledge to exclude lobbyists from areas where they would be biased.”

#2 (3/03/09) – Goldman Sachs’ Mysterious 2008 Tax Rate – “If they are dodging taxes, the testicular fortitude of these guys is truly impressive. They’re taking taxpayer dollars via the bailouts, shifting profits overseas to avoid paying any taxes, then awarding themselves generous bonuses.”

#3 (3/03/09) – Fox News: “Goldman Sachs Executives Gifted with Public Purpose” – That’s the real title of a 2006 Fox News article praising the revolving door between GS and high-government office.

#4 (4/17/09) – Goldman Squeezes SPG Shorts – Angry rant after GS squeezed a stock I was short (Simon Property). I found some dirt on previous SEC wrist-slaps for similar actions in the past (all alleged, I have no proof of course).

#5 (4/21/09) – Selected History of GS Conviction Buy List – Some of the horrible conviction buy calls made by GS, with price at time of the call.

#6 (5/09/09) – Henry Paulson’s $200m Tax Shelter – Paulson used a little-known rule to unload his $700m in Goldman stock with zero capital gains when he became Treasury Secretary. This was to ensure that Paulson was free from conflicts of interest. Hah. ha. Ugh.

I’m trying not to get my hopes up for any meaningful justice taking place. But the public outrage is really reaching a fever-pitch. Max Kaiser was just on French TV openly calling GS execs scum and calling for them (the whole bunch, I presume?) to be thrown in jail.