Firstly, may I extend a humble welcome to myself and thanks to thegrantlander for inviting me to post herein.
OK. So, I ghostwrite the "publisher's letter" for a national trade magazine. The January letter was due on Dec. 11, and my message hinges on the fact that we (the U.S. retail community) had a crummy holiday shopping season. So now, I find myself in the acutely uncomfortable position of having to root for just that -- dismal retail numbers and stores going out of business and whatnot. Otherwise, when the magazine arrives in the subscriber's mailbox during the first week of January, the publisher will look like an idiot. I was dismayed when the venerable Ben Stein (...Buehler.... Buehler...) opined on TV's CBS Sunday Morning that the rich should spend like drunken sailors over the holidays to help make up for the poor peoples' inability to spend. NOT! As if I should worry too much about rich peoples' spending behaviors! I DO feel sorry for my publisher.
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By the way, I have some unsubstantiated gossip about the venerable Ben Stein from about ten years ago. A school friend had a college roommate for whom Ben Stein became a sleazy sugar daddy. The icing on the cake was that the girl was taken by B.S. to some Republican gladhand "affair" where she sat at a table with Stein, Rush Limbaugh and Henry Kissinger (among less notable others) and where off-color jokes about certain races of people were proffered. Delicious...
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