Monday, May 01, 2006

One Down, One Up

With the death, at age 97, of John Kenneth Galbraith - the sensitive thinking man's economist - the level of common sense in this world has gone down a notch. Or two.

But all is not lost. For what do we see in the New York Times Magazine? Nothing less than a brand new, serialised Maggie story by Xaime Hernandez, coming at you a page at a time, in glorious full colour. No, I didn't believe it either.