Master's in Maya Angelou
Do you remember Van Jones? He was Obama's "green jobs" czar back before "green jobs" had been
exposed as a gazillion-dollar sinkhole for sluicing taxpayer monies to the president's corporate cronies. Oh,
don't worry. These cronies aren't "corporate" in the sense of Steve Jobs. The corporations they run put
"people before profits": That's to say, they've figured out it's easier to take government money from you
people than create a business that makes a profit. In an amusing inversion of the Russian model, Van
Jones became a czar after he'd been a Communist.
Michael Oher, offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, was online Wednesday night when his Twitter feed started filling up with tributes to Steve Jobs. A bewildered Oher tweeted: "Can somebody help me out? Who was Steve Jobs!"
He was on his iPhone at the time.
Who was Steve Jobs? Well, he was a guy who founded a corporation and spent his life as a corporate executive manufacturing corporate products. So he wouldn't have endeared himself to the "Occupy Wall Street" crowd, even though, underneath the patchouli and lentils, most of them are abundantly accessorized with iPhones and iPads and iPods loaded with iTunes, if only for when the drum circle goes for a bathroom break.
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