Don't Stop Believing is the most downloaded song on iTunes recorded in the 20th century. Killer tune with pseudo-deep lyrics? That's a license to print money.

Portland seems like a lush and lovely paradise. I think I'd like everything about living in Portland except the smug assholes who live there.

Of all the pernicious -isms out there, I think we can agree elitism is the best. That or rectangular prisms.

Reason #4,323 why The Economist is my favorite news publication (Even when nobody is around)

On The Economist's Award winning US Politics blog (The Webby's are meaningless PR stunts, but I happen to agree with this one) Democracy in America, they have a category for political news stories termed "Complete Foolishness."

Wit and style, with a healthy disdain for the process of Politico gushing about how awesome Vanity Fair and Bloomberg parties are in a naked attempt to be invited.  You've got to appreciate that.

New Yorkers are nice to people they'd like to hook up with

Today on the train back to Manhattan, I witnessed a truly heart warming moment. An attractive Latina woman had forgotten her train ticket at the office, and was going to have to pay some $15 to pay for a new one on board. She struggled with her massive pocketbook that contained at least 3 back issues of Vogue to cobble together a few singles before looking up at the ticket collector with pleading eyes.
Miraculously, a young man sitting next to her offered to put her fare on his weekly ticket, saving her the fee. She was understandably effusive in her gratitude, and he tried mightily to wave it off as nothing, that he's always underwriting public transport for hot chicks. It took him a grand 2 minutes to ask for her name and suggested they grab a drink in Manhattan. She declined, but not as graciously as she thanked him a minute ago.

Maybe next time, MTA Cassanova. I'll definitely be rooting for you in your ceaseless quest for women in that train car seat next to the bathroom. I believe in you.

If a snob reads in a forest, will he impress grad students?

Reading The Economist is like hooking up with a supermodel--its no good if nobody sees you.

How old can you be before its absurd that people still call you Junior? Based on these dudes on the subway, looks like 65 is still in play.