~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GREEDMAG GIVES REASONS FOR LIVING/NOT LIVING "Faceoff: Who's Younger? Who's Richer? Ah, to be young AND rich. What could be better? Maybe to be younger and richer. With FORTUNE's annual 40 under 40 list launching Sept. 3, see how much you know about this year's contenders. For each of the following 8 pairs of celebrities, select who you think is younger and who's richer. Then see how well you score." -----FORTUNE magazine, working hard to find readers who know less about what just happened. Thus the fawning babble from Fortune magazine, whose raison d'etre is the shallowest and emptiest of all things and ambitions: money. Is it clear to you what GARBAGE this is? Perhaps not if you're under 40, getting your ass kissed by the fawning greedmag scrambling for the loss-inexperienced "youth market." Here in the nuttiest of nutshells is the core problem with America today: the profit-grubbing concept that youth and money are the epitome of endeavor and worthiness. One would think we were just getting over that for the nth time. Add a dash of 'celebrity' (ridiculous concept) and you have a DISASTROUS teaching, by the basest of teachers. To any intelligently experienced mind (i.e., elder), such rubrics are utter nonsense, and will lead inevitably to great disappointment at the individual level and disaster at the societal level. To teach that youth is the worthiest part of life (and by inference that aging = loss) and that money is the worthiest objective (and that its lack = unworthiness) is to betray very basic principles, and enable a very few to make a FORTUNE (most often the rather thick offspring of those who have already made insider fortunes, like America's current corporate-tool president and his puppeteers). Fight back. Age with natural confidence and sever your pleasures from pieces of paper with dead people's pictures on them; find the true fortune. posted by Robert Brady 6:42 PM . . .
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BUSH TO EARTH: DROP DEAD! To no one's great surpise, Dub will not be attending the Earth Summit or hugging a tree anytime soon. His focus is on MONEY flowing into campaign coffers, and earth and trees don't donate a dime, nor do they vote Republican. posted by Robert Brady 9:22 PM . . .
