Why I Love Stephen Metcalfe, Part MMCLXXXVII

[florafloraflora]

Here is reason number 2187 why I want to have Stephen Metcalfe's love child: his essay on Don Imus is the smartest thing anyone has said about the whole scandal. From the opening sentence ("How iced-out in the bedroom and thumbed-under at work are America's commuters that they find drive-time radio funny?") to this paragraph:...[The "nappy-headed

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[emperor_fool]

Scooch over and leave me a little room on the crankypants bench. I'm so not crying salt tears for these folks. What the hell were they thinking, buying (or, rather, borrowing) so far above what they could reasonably afford to keep. It will be a small miracle if I can ever buy so much as a shack on the Cape. But I'm grownup enough to know that, and so the rent check is in the mail.

[florafloraflora]

It will be a small miracle if I can ever buy so much as a shack on the Cape. But I'm grownup enough to know that, and so the rent check is in the mail.

Thank you! That's exactly what I'm saying. I don't begrudge my home-owning friends their real estate. I'm also not so distressed by feelings of inferiority that I would take on some ridiculous ARM to try and rise above my condition.

[miketroll]

I'm no radio ham but I think I get what Stephen Metcalfe is saying. A few months ago I heard something nauseatingly similar in Brisbane. A local radio host was sounding off in a tone of injured reasonableness: "I just want to watch the footie (upcoming Aussie Rules cup final) and have a few beers. What's wrong with that?" The implied objectors were those nagging harpie PC females (probably dykes if you think about it) who deplored the ocker habit of getting roaring drunk with your mates at the expense of responsibility towards partner and family.

[florafloraflora]

Other than the buyers who were just desperate, a lot of people probably expected to be able to flip the property within a couple of years, before the higher rates kicked in. But that pyramid scheme couldn't last forever because the pool of suckers just wasn't deep enough. It was their prerogative to take that gamble, but I'm not crying for them now.