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...travel is that I don’t actually have to do anything. Here’s what I know: I get on a plane, seat myself, experience some shaking and rumbling for about five hours, get off the plane and Poof! I’m in Los Angeles. Magic! Tactile sensation, immediate contact, synaesthetic pleasure: These are the artifacts of old-fashioned travel that have been replaced by the passivity of the “commuter.” Even if I bother to look out the window somewhere over South Dakota, the enormous visual distance between...
...courage to make this argument? I am not that man. But if I were that man, the case would run something like this: the magic of capitalism, as explained by Adam Smith and his followers, is that it channels individual greed into activities that benefit all of us. "Greed is good," declared Michael Douglas, playing a corrupt financier in the movie Wall Street. More accurately, greed is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. And in moderation, economists argue and history demonstrates, greed is no bad thing. Free-market economies could not function if we were all Mother Teresa...
...seriously did the Walt Disney Co. take the message that a large chunk of shareholders wanted CEO Michael Eisner to return his keys to the Magic Kingdom...
...Magic and Medicine
...opening track on Magic and Medicine, “In the Forest,” is supposed to be some kind of dream sequence about this guy finding his nymph in her element. But with lyrics like “From all the feelings that are making you blue / You’ll never know how much I…you,” it’s impossible to take this stuff seriously. “Gypsy Market Blues” is the band’s feeble attempt to emulate Dylan-style talking blues...