Reply #20: That's interesting about the DUer going ballistic. If I were in her position, I [View All]

[gateley]

would HOPE your post would serve to remind me that my comfy lifestyle isn't shared by all.

I think it's like the people in DC -- they say "people are worrying about how they're going to pay their bills, go to the doctor" but they have no real understanding of what living like that means.

I posted a thread about the Sally Jesse Raphael Syndrome (named by me). Leslie Marshall (progressive radio host) was subbing for someone and told a story about when she was first beginning in radio, she was called to fill in for SJR. She was thrilled. The station told her that they wouldn't be renewing SJR's contract. When Leslie asked why they said that when Sally Jesse started, she was a 'real' person, drove herself to work, her kids to school, picked up her dry cleaning, etc. After she got her TV gig she had a driving service, personal assistants -- she had "lost touch with the real world".

I don't begrudge someone being able to pony up $1.5 mil for a comic book, but it just breaks my heart when some have so much, and others don't even have a place to live.