Too little, too often and too bad

Frank Rich has summed up the decade and why a lot of us are just generally cranky, and we probably all ought to pay attention. We won't, because the national span of attention is .5 nanoseconds, but we probably ought to try really hard. His point is simple -- Ben Bernanke  isn't the ideal man of the year; Tiger Woods should be the man of the year. Phony, smarmy, and totally American. ENRON is the company of the decade; phony, smarmy and totally useless -- and, utterly American. If you say it often enough, in HD, we're dumb enough to buy it. Whether your tendencies are T-Rex, T-Bag or proggel, there's always something happening at the zoo...with about as much meaning.

I went to my wife's Christmas party last night. Not as horrible as I expected. However, one of the women started complaining that her cost of living adjustment this year was only going to be 1.5% and it's all Obama's fault. I came to a surprising epiphany -- when $40K per annum clerks have that sort of sense of entitlement, we really are lost.