Zeitgeist Schadenfreude

"If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good, makes the bill good, also. The difference between the bond and the bill is the bond lets money brokers collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%, whereas the currency pays nobody but those who contribute directly in some useful way. It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers and the other helps the people." - Thomas Edison, The New York Times (6 December 1921) "By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit thus become the most potent means of driving capitalist production beyond its own limits, and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle." - Karl Marx, Capital, Volume III (1894), Chapter XXXVI, Pre-Capitalist Relationships, p. 607.

Merry Christmas!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Rob Gronkowski

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/13/being-poor-changes-your-thinking-about-everything/

Not only is there a class war among our food: "We also found expensive crisps more likely to use the language of... negation (“never fried”, “no fluorescent orange”). In fact crisps cost 4 cents more per ounce for every additional “no” on the packet. This use of distinguishing language supports French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s theory that upper-class taste in food has the role of “distinguishing” the rich from other classes." But good food is also apparently some kind of vice: "When a review of an expensive restaurant was positive, writers tended to use metaphors of sex and sensual pleasure... But positive reviews of cheap restaurants and foods instead employed metaphors of drugs or addiction"

Just a quick sketch for my own amusement; I might tidy it up later if the mood takes me.

*Please refrain from attempting to converse while simultaneously masticating.

Randall doing what Randall does.