Behind The Times

my nanny goes really well with the plantation-style architecture!

This article (see photo), that article (especially the part about the professional book club facilitator), and this column (weekly advice for people with a second home) make me want to barf.

Seriously, the New York Times should hire someone, whose full-time job will be to critique the patrician sensibilities of this graying, bourgie publication.  Oh wait, they did! Too bad after-the-fact rationalizations don’t effectively neutralize the metallic taste of aristocracy.  The best thing for that is milk, (but not the Organic $7/gallon kind).

Thank heavens for the internet age, which is battering this once-mighty argosy of journalistic integrity.  Soon they may be forced to find revenue other than full-page Gucci propaganda to bouy this gilded galleon.  Perhaps a bit of middle-class appeal will be worth more than just increased readership: it could be the price of keeping this formerly formidable frigate above water.