"diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friends. now you know which sex has more sense." zsa zsa gabor_______"we have your back because you have ours. and that's why it's me writing this letter instead of someone in marketing. because these times demand partnership with dedicated subscribers like you who value groundbreaking reporting and what it adds to their lives..." nick kristof. op-ed columnist in a charming "dear subscriber" leter that came with my sunday times last week_____except for the fact that the alleged "groundbreaking reporting" is the bait for the shills...the lure for the glib advertising that pervades the times...and don't try to tell me it isn't aimed at an elite group of buyers...section f of today's times is a paean to "holiday baubles"...eight pages of articles with titles like "i wear art" and advertisements ranging from "lagos" at bloomingdales to valentin magro on west 48th street in new york "by appointment only" and not a single price listed anywhere...no surprise that zsa zsa showed up...look up "mercenary" and doubtlessly her likeness would be the illustration..."the holidays" are upon us and scrooges "false and commercial festival" is about to lurch into full swing ( unless you have been in a big box store since october in which case you have already burned out on the whole thing )...so as we stagger from one dysfunctional seizure to another let us keep in mind the hegemonic dictum, "work, obey, consume, die" as a focus for the coming month...it's a consequentialist system and material wealth is the ultimate ethical good...it's not who you are, it's what you have...it's what the new york times tells me every time it is delivered to my door ( expecting about a four pound paper sunday )...they are the "paper of record" and have "all the news that's fit to print"...it must be true...one wonders why they hate don trump so though...he is nothing if not of the elite and they are stenographers to power...it is mystifying.
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