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...salary into my 401(k), and even though I spend a ridiculous percentage of my paycheck on housing - I do live in New York City - it's just a one-room apartment. I dropped my laptop and broke the screen a year ago; it still works, so I haven't replaced it. Helpful hint No. 2: ThinkPads are only slightly less rugged than soccer balls. (See 10 things to do in New York City...
...other day, a friend who is considering moving to a cheaper apartment in a worse neighborhood to save money said she finally understands the sacrifices our parents made. That made me think about how there's a difference between giving something up (I haven't had cable TV in more than a year, but really, what am I missing?) and sacrifice. For the first time that I've noticed, my generation is becoming familiar with that second concept...
...haven't come to the end of ideology, as Daniel Bell asserted in 1960 and Francis Fukuyama restated in 1992, but the familiar polarities of right and left are losing their salience. For a while, America will be in a state of ideological flux - which means we'll be unusually free to improvise a fresh course forward. We can have universal health coverage and public schools unbound from the stultifying grip of teachers' unions. We can tax fossil fuels so that solar and wind become more economical and commit seriously to nuclear power. We can impose sensible regulatory mechanisms...
...certain self-parodying epiphenomena of the Age of Profligacy - so long, Paris Hilton! - are about to disappear, fun will endure. Hollywood is doing fantastic box-office business, thanks to insanely unserious movies like Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Madea Goes to Jail. The Colbert Report has been a special haven of sanity amid the sky-is-falling hysteria. And again, history is encouraging in this regard: Saturday Night Live and modern comedy were born during the malaise-y '70s, just as wit and humor - the New Yorker, the Marx Brothers, screwball comedy - flourished in the '30s. I'm even hopeful...
...some friends over a few days before my book came out and had some, but I haven't gone into a restaurant and ordered it in a while. To me, it's one of these things I would have on rare ocassions. Because I did this book on it, the novelty is completely gone. But I think if I wrote a book about brownies, I wouldn't really be craving brownies right now either...