Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Rubbing It In

Take your blood pressure medicine before you read this article:

Everything You Need to Know About Wall Street, in One Brief Tale | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

If there was ever a news story that crystalized the moral dementia of modern Wall Street in one little vignette, this is it.

Newspapers in Colorado today are reporting that the elegant Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado,  will be closed to the public from today through Monday at noon.

Why? Because a local squire has apparently decided to rent out all 94 rooms of the hotel for three-plus days for his daughter’s Bat Mitzvah...

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