By George Milton, Hipographia
Crack-TV Chronicles
The housewife that couldn’t
Gretchen Rossi—one of the stars of Bravo’s seminal franchise, Real Housewives of Orange County, is a lucky genetic accident. By that I mean she’s outside the norm. In the bell-shaped distribution she’s one of those creatures sitting pretty on one of the extremes—the extremely fortunate one—the coordinates inhabited by people blessed with perfect body, features and voice, the kind that answers a teenager’s wet prayers. Rossi’s looks are the prime if not sole reason why Bravo picked her to impersonate a “real housewife”—a suitably Orwellian term for a woman who’s neither a housewife nor very real. Read more…
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By Alex Lantier and David North
In the era of the explosive development of American capitalism, which began in the aftermath of the Civil War, the great fortunes accumulated by the “robber barons” were associated with a massive growth in the industrial and social infrastructure of the United States. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan and others were rapacious and ruthless; but they could at least claim that there was some progressive social purpose connected to their pursuit of private wealth.
Steven Schwarzman, just $4.7 Billion net worth
Recent months have seen the eruption of popular anger throughout the United States at the staggering levels of social inequality, with the Occupy Wall Street protests gathering broad popular sympathy and support.
This development, unforeseen and unscripted by the media, has left Wall Street’s “masters of the universe” wallowing not only in money, but also in self-pity. What have they done, complain these tender-hearted architects of hedge funds, collateralized debt obligations and countless other forms of financial swindling, to merit such popular disdain? The Financial Times web site reported in an article posted Wednesday that the rich are “indignant,” resentful of the “class war” rhetoric that is being heard in public protests. Read more…
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By Hiram Lee, WSWS.ORG
Lady Gaga covered in blood: Porno star or gifted singer? The confusion is inevitable as Gaga personifies the blatant decadence defining much of the arts in today’s bourgeois culture. Her art—such as it is—is shamelessly derivative (think Madonna) and sycophantic toward her audience. —Eds
Pop singer Lady Gaga has returned with her third album Born This Way. Both the album, and its title track, have gained attention for the singer’s outspoken support for gay rights. The title track has also been criticized, with some justification, for its obvious resemblance to Madonna’s music of the 1980s. Read more…
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