I hate cooking.  It’s the whole organizational aspect of it–you have to have the green pepper chopped up and ready to go once the garlic has softened, you have to stir-fry it for five minutes (God help you if you skip out to pee and come back a minute late), and when you’re done you have to clean up the mess.  Pass.  For our first few months together my roommate thought I was a druggie because I hardly ate anything–until she discovered I think cooking takes too much work.

So why did I think it would be a good idea . . .

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My boss forwarded me this article this morning from yesterday’s New York Times. Although he couches it in a disavowal of Marx and “everything he stands for”, Ben Stein writes that Marx was a “shrewd observer”, speaks out against supply-side economics, and speaks up for raising the pay of the American worker.

Forget the manatee swimming up the Hudson River in NYC; when Ben Stein agrees with Marx, and commie-pinkos like me agree with Ben Stein, this is a . . .

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