Political Memos

This week in the Village Voice:  Tom Robbins on Obama and music.

This week in the New Yorker:  James Surowiecki on food.

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There's gloom and doom everywhere with the recession.  The only thing to do is to look on the bright side.  I was intrigued by Surowiecki's suggestion that the "bursting of the commodity bubble...may have saved many from actually starving."

After all, how long was the fat, ignorant trip going to last?  As recently as May 2006, almost five thousand Americans bought Hummers in a single month.   And those heinous Hummer limos:  I won't be sad to see those disappear.