Now this is interesting. Matt has a post up talking about the assumption that Americans have been engaged in an orgy of personal consumption driven by an explosion in expensive entertainment and communication products. The past decade has seen computers and cell phones, at least, become practically mandatory. It’s tempting,…
Remember the Michelle Obama-homeless shelter-cell phone brouhaha from last month? My hometown paper writes about this rich homeless people and their gaudy cell phones: But officials at Dayton homeless shelters say that the clients who have cell phones are usually the ones who are the most serious about finding employment…