Category: Politics, Religion & Money

I don’t subscribe to Boston Common magazine, but it comes in the mail anyway. I think I’m on the mailing list because of my American Express Gold Card.

The magazine is named after a park in Boston, and it’s intended for the young, beautiful, fashionable and rich of greater Boston, although the old, fashionable and rich are also featured prominently. I’m flipping through it now, and I see an ad for Stella Artois lager beer, recently featured here on DogRat.com. There’s also a must-see ad for clothier Blue Fly. My son is almost sixteen, so I see no harm in letting this one through. Click to enlarge. I can’t find this picture at Blue Fly online, but it’s in Boston Common magazine.

Oh, the expansive and expensive suburban homes! The in-town luxury condos! The cars and the fashions and the restaurants, and Harvard, and everything else that goes with being so fabulously well off. I refer you to the video in a previous post about Hyannis Homeys. How many people truly can afford to live this way? The Natick Mall, west of Boston, is now called The Natick Collection, and I’m curious to know how well Neiman-Marcus and Nordstrums, and Tiffany’s, and the new condos catering to the customers of those stores, will do.

I may be as downbeat about Wall Street and the mortgage crisis as anybody else with a BA in Economics, but Steve Fraser has an editorial in the L.A. Times that’s downright depressing! If that link doesn’t work, click here.

Nobody’s listening, George… give it up.

President Bush, trying to keep pressure on Iran, called on Tehran Wednesday to “come clean” about the scope of its nuclear activities or else face diplomatic isolation.

Bush isn’t even the boy who cried wolf, because unlike the children’s story it turns out there’s no wolf.

Bush said the new conclusion — contradicting earlier U.S. assessments — would not prompt him to take off the table the possibility of pre-emptive military action against Iran.

“Look, Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.”

Bush was wrong about stem cells, tax cuts for the rich, Iraq, Terry Schiavo, and Social Security. So I’m sure as heck not going to start thinking he’s got it right this time.