From Dept. of Shameless Self-Promotion
Here is a piece by yours truly cited in latest issue of The Week magazine among “Best columns: US”
Geezers are right this time
How many times do we have to say this? Social Security is not welfare. It is an earned benefit, an independent program that has no business landing in the Simpson-Bowles operating room.
THE GEEZERS ARE RIGHT THIS TIME
Tags: conservatives, Medicare, Social Security, Washington
Yes, Bain is a looter
The problem isn’t the profession of private equity investing. It’s how you run the business. Romney’s Bain Capital crossed lines it shouldn’t have.
BAIN AND OUR SCREWED-UP CULTURE
Silicon slumming 2.0
To get the unwitting masses to trust you and think you’re cool, Silicon techies avoid conspicuous displays of wealth that are highly conspicuous to each other — like the $1,200 pair of custom-made jeans. Or $20,000 hand-painted Italian bicycles.
Let’s find some cashmere hoodies.
By the way, they were also selling $20,000 bicycles near Wall Street — until the meltdown.
Tags: California, consumption, culture, technology
Silicon slumming
How do you get the little people to surrender their privacy and friends’ names to your corporation? Pretend you’re one of them.
Tags: California, culture, technology, Wall Street
Hot potato cartoons
What happens when the cartoonist who draws the story becomes the story? Opinion editors offer an interesting discussion of the Doonesbury vaginal ultrasound cartoons, what their readers are telling them, and what they’re doing about the controversial cartoons, if anything. Read this.
Local culture goes into the Mixmaster
Kentucky Derby, New Year’s Eve — the Industrial Entertainment Complex has turned these distinct rituals into a blob.
THROWING AMERICAN TRADITION INTO THE MIXMASTER
Tags: culture, Kentucky, media, New York City
Trials of Ric Grenell
Why gay Republicans put up with it, I don’t know. But I did ask R. Clarke Cooper, head of the Log Cabin Republicans.
Tags: culture, gays, politics, Republicans, right wing
