But Enough about You

EVERY now and then, America just strips herself naked and wiggles her cute derrièreat you in all its glory. This happened the other night whilst I was chopping garlic in the kitchen. I was watching Henry Paulson-a.k.a. “King Henry” (Newsweek) or, as he was known on the playing fields of Dartmouth, “The Hammer”- manfully explaining to Tom Brokaw why he needs to give AIG $85 gazillion of my and your dollars.

In the next instant, on came Robert Wagner-the actor, not the deceased mayor of New York-in his star role as spokesman for a company that sells “reverse” mortgages, namely, you give them your house, and they give you a nice little monthly allowance. What if you live too long? Well, as Mr. Wagner said with a big, shiny grin, operators are standing by to answer “all your questions!”

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EVERY now and then, America just strips herself naked and wiggles her cute derrièreat you in all its glory. This happened the other night whilst I was chopping garlic in the kitchen. I was watching Henry Paulson-a.k.a. “King Henry” (Newsweek) or, as he was known on the playing fields of Dartmouth, “The Hammer”- manfully explaining to Tom Brokaw why he needs to give AIG $85 gazillion of my and your dollars.

In the next instant, on came Robert Wagner-the actor, not the deceased mayor of New York-in his star role as spokesman for a company that sells “reverse” mortgages, namely, you give them your house, and they give you a nice little monthly allowance. What if you live too long? Well, as Mr. Wagner said with a big, shiny grin, operators are standing by to answer “all your questions!”