quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

In my experience, the people who are nerds about social engagements and professional societies are the worst sort of nerds.

lol nothing says "i couldn't get into an elite school but my parents have a shit ton of money" like a degree from GW

yeah I am pretty sure if he had gotten into columbia/one of the various other 4 year clubs for these people he wouldn't feel the need to create this thing. I'm sure he thought this up one day after being made fun of by some georgetown kid.

i dunno i think this club sounds kind of cool

You must infiltrate it and steal everyone's identity. The Talented Mr. Gr8080

i promise to liveblog it

xp excelsior

“like winner, not a loser,’” she said, spelling her name

^^^ excerpted from the forthcoming "pitchforkreviewsreviews reviews native society" post

you can see some of these people on facebook its kind of lol

lol nothing says "i couldn't get into an elite school but my parents have a shit ton of money" like a degree from GW

― pascal's swagger (J0rdan S.), Thursday, March 3, 2011 4:03 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah I am pretty sure if he had gotten into columbia/one of the various other 4 year clubs for these people he wouldn't feel the need to create this thing. I'm sure he thought this up one day after being made fun of by some georgetown kid.

― iatee, Thursday, March 3, 2011 4:16 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and now i feel kinda bad for these lil pukes

are these people white

I haven't read the article I don't even know what thread I'm posting in

is this pre or post puff, your post

the puffington post

i dig this style of commentary

ice dig your style of cr?mentary

yeah man

right on

white people

so funny

I'm easy!

Diet Plan With Hormone Has Fans and Skeptics

“From an anecdotal point of view,” Dr. Bissoon said, “physicians all around the country are making $1200 a month off each of these suckers and we don't intend to change that.”

Why do some links to NYT require log-in and some don't?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/nyregion/08hcg.html?partner=rss&emc=rss - this one doesn't, in case the one above did for anyone else.

cuz they're gearing up for their paywall

Because coming in off of a "partner" link is treated differently iirc

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/us/13bcstevens.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

classrooms decorated with room-size hand-hooked rugs depicting scenes of American history, the kitchen, where Gordon Getty occasionally pads around in his bathrobe and where a chef trained at Chez Panisse prepares organic, multicourse lunches for the teachers and children

Making poorly thought out diagnoses of Asperger's, sounds like ilx

That's golden, but I loved the bit where the headmistress is diagnosing the kids though best. "Aspergers, definitely. And Paul is going to be a violent schizophrenic. And Claude is showing all the signs of a teenage bedwetter. Just letting you know in advance."

xp

So let me get this straight. Super rich parents are sending their kids to an unlicensed, un-inspected, illegal daycare run out of somebody's home where a dude in a robe makes food and a vindictive lady with a Montessori certificate hands out psych diagnoses like Flintstone vitamins because it's invite only and that makes people think it's special? That is like some limited edition Beanie Babies, manufactured scarcity, straight bullshit right there.

Oh I'm sorry. A chef makes the food. The crepe lurking around in his bathrobe is the owner. It all makes sense now.

TBF, (1) it is free, and (2) I get the sense that people either (a) are afraid to refuse or (b) don't know what they're getting into and then are afraid to leave when they find out. Which is perhaps the quintessential agony of the ruling class.

What are they afraid of? I mean, if they are really worried that refusing to send their kids to this crazy ass daycare would result in some thing really bad, why the hell are they entrusting their little kids to these crazy ass mofos' care? "Oh, sorry Caleb, but I'm going to send you to stay with these vengeful weirdos all day because if I don't, they might black ball us from the yacht club and then you'll never get into Stanford."

basically

The chef serves crepes out of his bathrobe?

xp Or they may be mistaking her nastiness for strictness in the beginning and not bolting when the scales fall from their eyes.

weird fucking scene man

Mrs. Getty — who runs the school as “a gift to the community,”

rich on rich philanthropy is the worst - eg donating to harvard or w/e - way to give to people who dont need it

um, pretty sure donating to harvard = scholarships for people who actually do need it.

I mean at least it can = that.

they have like a 5b endowment youre aware

'scholarships for people who actually do need it' = pretty inconsequential part of the harvard money machine

xp

no way, it's way more than that

(looks it up)

27b

ok actually

*marin of error +/- 22b

The preschool director's website states that "never before have people wanted to be parents more than the current generation". That doesn't seem right. I thought population growth was slowing down.

http://www.lipplan.com/

harvard does have a pretty generous financial need program, but its purpose is to breed future billionaires who will donate back to harvard

my friend worked in a development office once, its pretty scary what they do

oh yeah no doubt it's pretty sweet to be a poor kid admitted to harvard in 2011 but if the school was really interested in helping the disadvantaged they could increase their class size and admit way more poor kids / fewer philips exeter types