April 14, 2014

Toile #2

Today Land of Excess worships at the feet of Thomas Frank, who you may recall authored “What’s the Matter With Kansas?  How Conservatives Won the Heart of America”.   Our friend John Reuter alerted us to Frank’s April 13 article in Salon.

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/13/let_them_eat_mcmansions_the_1_percent_income_inequality_and_new_fashioned_american_exess/

Today this little bit from the fabulous article:  “Inequality is the point of the McMansion, and the McMansion is also, to a certain degree, the point of inequality; it’s the pot of pyrite at the end of the rainbow of shit that we have chosen as a nation to follow.”