10.16.11
Davos Nick tells us the obvious
Davos Nick at 20 seconds. He fetched the shopping for Mrs. Baxter down the road.
Nick “Davos” Kristof is a creature of our times. Readers know I despise him.
He’s most famous for helping to screw up the anthrax case early on by using his reputation and real estate at the New York Times to tar the wrong man. Which is about the same order of pox as Judith Miller.
Davos Nick is the archetype of the hand wringing sincere namby-pamby always trying to purvey the proper amount of sincerity, good will and concern over what he views as the problems of the day.
So he moistens his index finger with a bit of spittle and holds it up to the wind. If there’s a hurricane starting to blow he’ll write something like he did today, on Occupy Wall Street, furnishing the obvious with the authority only a man such as him can provide.
More broadly, there’s a growing sense that lopsided outcomes are a result of tycoons’ manipulating the system, lobbying for loopholes and getting away with murder.
Wow! Banksters have gotten “away with murder.”
But more recent research suggests the opposite: inequality not only stinks, but also damages economies.
Double wow! Inequality “stinks.”
Inequality also leads to early deaths and more divorces — a reminder that we’re talking not about data sets here, but about human beings.
Wow! Wow! Wow! Poor people die earlier.
Some critics think that Occupy Wall Street is simply tapping into the public’s resentment and covetousness, nurturing class warfare. Sure, there’s a dollop of envy.
They’re envious! Woo! Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods.
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My, 1,170,184 “Followers” on Twitter. Thatsa lotta lickspittle.
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