High life

6 December 2008

Triple whammy

It is a rigorous three-week course, but the people who run it are simply wonderful and know exactly what they’re doing. Most of them lost their moolah during the 2000 techie crash, so it’s still fresh in their minds. If you have any spare cash left, send it to them. The life you will make more comfortable could be that of the man or woman who you were on the phone to every day not so long ago.

And now to more serious matters concerning money. Woody Guthrie once said it was easier to put up with dust storms in the Dust Bowl than with the greed in California. Had he been around these parts last week, he would have changed his tune. A 270lb young black man was trampled to death while a mob of black men and women frantically reached for bargains such as flat-screen TVs. Americans are so effectively programmed to shop for new gadgets that they will trample a young man to death in order to satisfy their needs. Mind you, PC made sure the colour of those who trampled the man to death was never mentioned. Obama or no Obama.

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John Varnom

December 6th, 2008 9:29am Report this comment

A medium I know revealed to me recently that your old pal Jeff Bernard, having recovered from the shock of the all-day milk and baklava diet they have up there, is keen to start writing a new column that he wants to call Afterlife. Via Madame Octavia (the medium) he has even managed to send me a copy. Do you think we should publish or might it be too risky? (There seem to be a lot of folk Jeff is now obliged to socialise with that he doesn't care for at all.)

Johanna

January 9th, 2009 2:46pm Report this comment

Funny & true - several New York gossip columns and blogs ran an item this week about [Lehman Bros chief] Richard Fuld being shown how to use the check-in machine at Jet Blue by his chauffeur...

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