Every Few Months

Joel Stein, of the Los Angeles Times & various failures to get sitcom writing gigs, is generally not amusing, especially when dealing w/ show bidness, but once in a while he gets off a good column. We were quite amused by one he did comparing Gen. Petraeus & Britney Spears in Sept. (You could find the link by searching "Joel Stein" in the search field at the left in the Blogger™ navbar above.) Today he's cranked out another good one:

The idea is this: Say, for instance, I got $600, and I spent it on strippers. Those strippers would then buy clothes at Bebe, and the person who owns Bebe would buy the crappy house I overpaid for and get me out of the financial predicament caused by unscrupulous mortgage lenders and not by my addiction to strip joints.

Good, that is, except for the Milton Friedman/poor people suck/Megan McArdle-style reference, but poor people are more likely to blow their $600.00 all at once. We (all us po' folk, not merely The Editor) know there's no future. (And barely a past to speak of.)