Greed Watch, I

Check out this greedy pig. Though we're far from the westside, this sort of thing goes on here all the time. In California, Prop 13, whatever its positive merits were or continue to be, has allowed two generations of people to shirk their obligations to the commonwealth.

My favorite quotation from the article is by Flaubert:

Two things sustain me. Love of literature and hatred of the bourgeois.

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Smoking is Beautiful, Part IV

Too often, the narrow, restricted Westside Mind, while under the vague impression that it champions aesthetics, instead neglects timeless beauty. I was reminded of this when I was rolling down Main Street in Santa Monica and caught sight of all those health & yoga freaks at the Earth Cafe. Horrible organic versions of the spandex and crocs. A sort of "tyranny of the mellow" was in the air. In defense, I present CZ Guest, above.

The war against cigarette smoking is a class war. If one peruses the medical (and popular) literature and its characterization of the subjects who smoke, too often they characerize the smoker as sub-human, uneducated, ignorant.