Elizabeth points us to this photo series of families across the world and their weekly diet. Elizabeth is struck by how many family drink soda. I was struck by how difficult it was to guess which middle class families were American by looking solely at the clothes and hair styles. It’s a GAP world.

Godwin’s Law:  “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

My little corner of New Jersey is ground zero for Juicy Couture sweats, Prada sunglasses, and Coach purses. I am particularly fond of the women who wear all those items at the same time, while shuffling in their flipflops to get their lattes at Starbucks. Hasn’t anyone alerted this women to the fact that if everyone is wearing the same thing, it is no longer cool? This book explains how this all happened, along with this fun fact — Miuccia Prada was a Communist with a doctorate in political
science when she took over her family’s small luxury goods business in
1978.

This story about Arthur Miller made me nauseous. (via John Holbo at CT)