[nutmeg]

Great article ping! Excerpt:

Do the wealthy and the powerful lecture us about our wrongs because they know their own insider status ensures that they are exempt from the harsh medicine they advocate for others? Millionaire Gore is not much affected by higher taxes for his cap-and-trade crusade.

Or does the hypocrisy grow out of a sort of class snobbery? Do elites hector the crass middle class because it lacks their own taste, rare insight and privileged style? Judging from the police report, Gates seemed flabbergasted that the white Cambridge cop did not know who he was "messing" with...

Al Gore's House

ONE of Oprah Winfrey's Houses

David Letterman's House

Thomas Friedman's House:

[Bigg Red]

In looking at all of those houses, I did not see a single clothesline or a single barrel for collecting rain water. I am so shocked.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!