Feeding The Beast

The reporting in the New York Times is excellent compared to most big media sources. But the huge, glossy real estate ads for properties that probably only the top .05 percent of the population could afford are really a discordant note. Not only do they strike a tone that that these overpriced spaces are the norm and surely anyone who can't even approach affording anything of this sort is not even worth considering as a human being, but the occasional features that provide background noise for the culture of these ads about "how far your money goes" in various locations seem to skew towards the most opulent properties in what are otherwise very affordable areas.

And then there are the wedding ads. They certainly sometimes seem like a directory of the overprivileged. When was the last time the love of two homeless people was celebrated in these venerable pages?

The argument would be that you have to feed the beast somehow, especially since print media is flying down the trash chute at an immoral velocity. Investigative reporting suffers somewhat, but, hey, at least there's a style magazine.

Radioactive Waste

Sharron Angle wants to phase out the EPA? The EPA should phase out Sharron Angle. First, they can declare the things she says to be toxic waste. Next, they can create a special fund to clean up the brownfields of her mind. And then they can put a protective bubble around her temporarily and finally encase her in a concrete dome designed to protect us all from her radioactive ideas.