Josh and Andrew [pay a visit](http://www.rollingstone.com/videos/new-and-hot/the-book-of-mormon-josh-gad-interviews-andrew-rannells-20111011#ooid=I1cHB2MjosZdyiQQMNFqqORqvDxwTYNK) to Rolling Stone.
Panic of the Plutocrats – NYTimes.com
What’s going on here? The answer, surely, is that Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe realize, deep down, how morally indefensible their position is. They’re not John Galt; they’re not even Steve Jobs. They’re people who got rich by peddling complex financial schemes that, far from delivering clear benefits to the American people, helped push us into a crisis whose aftereffects continue to blight the lives of tens of millions of their fellow citizens. Yet they have paid no price. Their institutions were bailed out by taxpayers, with few strings attached. They continue to benefit from explicit and implicit federal guarantees — basically, they’re still in a game of heads they win, tails taxpayers lose. And they benefit from tax loopholes that in many cases have people with multimillion-dollar incomes paying lower rates than middle-class families. This special treatment can’t bear close scrutiny — and therefore, as they see it, there must be no close scrutiny. Anyone who points out the obvious, no matter how calmly and moderately, must be demonized and driven from the stage. In fact, the more reasonable and moderate a critic sounds, the more urgently he or she must be demonized, hence the frantic sliming of Elizabeth Warren.
Moments after news broke about Steve Jobs’ death, a rainbow popped out of the Pixar campus (taken with my iPhone 4). Rest in peace, Steve, and thank you.
Steve Jobs, you will be missed.
Musical Medley of the Day: An oral history of non-lexical vocables in music, 1964-2008.
Featuring Jane Lui (http://youtube.com/luieland). Michael T. on bass (http://www.michaelt.org) and Jonathan Batiste on piano (http://www.jonathanbatiste.com). Directed by Joe Sabia (http://www.joesabia.co).
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett (on my kindle)
The Shawshank Redemption (on blu-ray)