Roger Simon says we should stop hating the rich :
Better provide some pretty compelling reason
S for so doing. Anyway, I don't hate them; I despise a lot of them for their callous indifference and their love of money, more money, and the toys money can buy.
“Simon certainly has his heart in the right place; ideally, hard work and thriftiness
would be all that is required to become wealthy in America. But more and more, it’s not even enough to live comfortably. Simon should have done a bit of research before over-extrapolating from his own personal experience, which simply isn’t relevant in 2010.’’
— JESSE SINGAL
Time’s “Person of the Year’’ is Zuckerberg :
“Instead of going general and once again picking ‘You,’ the people who use social media, as its ‘Person of the Year’ as it did in 2006, it chose to pick a leader of the social media revolution, a personification of the changes brought about by technology that we all feel in our daily lives. Zuckerberg is, as [Time Managine Editor Rick] Stengel put it, our ‘T-shirt-wearing head of state.’ ’’
— ROB ANDERSON
Urine found in Harvard’s Lamont Library :
“Urinating on a book about a minority group would be a crime. But leaving a jar of urine near said book . . . just in case someone happened to knock it over? That would be a passive-aggressive crime-ette, worthy of a brilliant and devious mind. Actually, it would make a great episode of ‘CSI.’ ’’
— JOANNA WEISS
Well, folks, if you think for ONE moment that Harvahd studs are bettah than the ray-yest of us - let go THAT illusion immediately. Although, obviously then CAN be far more immature.
Obama hands the podium over to Clinton :
“Obama also seems to have forgotten how much of Clinton’s success was due to his ability to ‘triangulate’ to achieve workable results that might not satisfy ideologues on the Republican right and Democratic left, but that a plurality of voters in the broad mainstream could support. Clinton’s compromises on welfare reform and budget-balancing were classic examples of triangulation, and part of what made them possible was Clinton’s ability to argue with (apparent) sincerity that he wholeheartedly embraced policies that drew on the best ideas of right and left without tilting toward either extreme.’’
— JEFF JACOBY
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