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The Culture of Status and How It Undoes Us.
We’ve been wondering about the media’s preoccupation with status lately (and by default ours too) and what this portends. The trophy life styles, the well appointed celebrity poster boys making their late night tv rounds, the dazzling cars and...
“Celebrity, Presidency and the Insubordinate Cintra Wilson; A Diatribe on Manners, Executive Privilege and Celebrity Cleavage.”
With the election finally over, and the new 'emperor' ordained, we are poignantly reminded that what has always been at stake is the strata of power. Power to interpret a bill of rights, power to veto, to indoctrinate, to...
Party Tricks, Smashed Birthday Cakes and the Ideological Hangover.
We’ve all been to them, lavish house parties where the guests begin to resemble the liquor bottles that they’ve been imbibing since early evening, where toilet bowls no longer flush, the birthday cake unfortunately falling off the ledge just...
The Culture of Fat Cats, Fast Cars, and the Dreams That Sometimes Go Bust.
We've been watching them lately, those gentlemen in finely wrought suits, whispered dispositions and gaunt expressions careening out of control. Once ubiquitous masters of the universe, chagrined expositors of fast cars, fast women and even...
The Bold, The Beautiful and the Tacky.
We've all probably succumbed at one stage of our lives to the nondescript personal ad. Some of us can say that it led to bon vivant romance, intoxicating sex and heart rendering escapades, but...
