Greed is good ?!?

Who wore suspenders (not Larry King), and had his Stairs Master right in his office? Kirk Douglas’ son, of course (  his  Dad I remember always as one hell of a Spartan).
The 80’s could be summed up in that one line: greed is good. Yuppies were in. And the wealth and health gospel was well propagated on evangelistic TV (Tammy Baker).
Bonfire of Vanity just replaced Catcher in the Rye, just as greed in place of alienation !  And women in the work place were seen in shoulder patches and frizzy hair . William Bennett was then the Secretary of Education, and you know what happened with him – publishing books urging morality in public, yet a gambling addict  in private . I saw him on CNN live this morning, but with the sound down at the gym I couldn’t hear what was being said.  Somehow, public personalities keep resurfacing, counting on our collective amnesia.  In Asia, he would have been done in, for good. So was Tammy and Jimmy Baker,  contrite or not. Any publicity is good?

Could have been worse.  They could have been ignored !
On other notes, I saw the unfolding drama in Tehran via twitter.
It reminds me of countless protests I either participated in
or witnessed : Buddhist monk immolation against Diem, flower power, “Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall,” Beijing man facing oncoming tanks, and “can’t we get along?”.
What made people take it to the streets and risk their lives? why can’t they just sign a petition or go to the voting booth? Well, fathers must step up, as the President says. Or maybe we should leave the protest to single men and women. As Dads, we must stay home. right?

Just don’t bring the Stairs Master into the home office. And most importantly, don’t wear suspenders. At least, on two later films,  Michael Douglas moved on from Wall Street to Main Street (Falling down) as he portrayed an unemployed man who kept leaving the house every morning with a sandwich in his brief case, and finally( in Disclosure) , he played a male subordinate being sexually harassed by his female boss (Demi Moore). In the world of work, you either produce, get lay-off or get harassed. And for the sake of political correctness, you lose if you sue. Greed or aggression is a human thing, not just a  male thing. Suspenders or shoulder patches?