I’m sure if he was free to roam Delaware County today, Dupont would have one.
…with long spikes along the outside wall.
I didn’t think you were supposed to oil them. I thought the loud squealing of the axles, along with the general un-cushioned bounciness of the ride (and of course the jeering crowds hurling things at you) were all part of the deal.
I see no reason to be vindictive, a limo for that long ride to the Big Short doesn’t seem too lenient.
But hey, at least this guy knows how many houses he owns.
The very least.
I should expect that actually knowing “The Tumbrel Song” would instantly promote me from maintenance to driver. 
CMC fnord!
What gets me in the mood to ready the tumbrel carts are the Patek Philippe watch ads in the New York Times (typically interspersed with articles about income inequality). Their pitch is not that you need a $40,000 watch to flaunt your wealth - no, you’re really only holding it in trust for the next squally, spoiled generation.
I’m not big on yammering about the “1%”, but damn if those ads don’t make me want to unfurl the red flag and march on the Hamptons.
Personally, I kind of agree with the premise of that Patek Philippe ad. Modern mass production methods and Chinese production have made manufactured goods cheaper than any previous time in history. So I could own ten mass-produced watches for fifty or so bucks each. And they’ll work fine Or I could spend more and get one high-end watch that’s a masterpiece of mechanical engineering. As I get older and acquire more stuff, I’m leaning towards acquiring less stuff but acquiring higher-quality stuff. And those better goods might be worth leaving to my heirs, or might actually increase in value.
Granpa? What’s a “watch”? Oh, it tells you what time it is! Wow. Pretty cool, gramps. Can you get an app for it to access porn?
That was very very clever
And once you get there, you’ll get a free continental breakfast! the breakfast is cursed
We are really going to have to kill several generations of the 1% to truly get them out of control. The elders are the established ones, but it’s the young ones that need to die first. Painfully and publically.
No need for it to be painful. The guillotine was invented to avoid that.
Whenever I get tired of flipping through Architectural Digest and hating the rich, I go to the grocery store to judge the contents of poor people’s shopping carts.
Or I could go to a museum where a millionaire has donated a masterpiece, and a bunch of poor kids are there learning about it. Nah, too warm & squishy.
An injustice does not necessarily require mortal consequences or abject misery to deserve correction. And I see no reason to remain silent about an injustice even if all it does is get on my nerves.
Art is not didactic.
Maybe, but that’s more of a Great Debate than a Pit debate.
To the OP, if we look at 100% of our species, not jut the top 1%, there are simply too many of us, draining and trashing our natural environment. So who poses the biggest threat?
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a few thousand billionaires with their giant houses?
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tens of millions of Americans who make around $100K/yr with houses and garages jammed with all their consumer junk?
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Billions of Indians, Chines and Africans who all want refrigerators?
It does the 1% good to be forcibly reminded, from time to time, that they can be dragged from their mansions and torn apart by the mob. We are, I think, at one of those junctures where that reminder is needed.
Less. I just read a quote today how she sort-of apologized for going to North Viet Nam. Mostly sorry for the impression she gave that she “wasn’t supporting the troops” rather than the “aid and comfort to the enemy” part. Is she running for President or something?
For me, it was touring Hearst Castle. Man, that place is decadent. Over the top decadent. Almost made me want to turn communist.