{"id":4440,"date":"2010-01-18T15:47:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/01\/18\/the-latest-from-awful-yuppie-t\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:47:18","slug":"the-latest-from-awful-yuppie-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/01\/18\/the-latest-from-awful-yuppie-t\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest from Awful Yuppie Town: Green Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the less attractive features of the New York Times<\/cite> is its tendency to feature little profiles of horrible people. They’re not presented that way, of course, but that’s the effect– I read these articles, and just want to slap everybody involved.<\/p>\n

Today’s story on marital tensions caused by environmental issues<\/a> is a fine example of the form:<\/p>\n

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He bikes 12 1\/2 miles to and from his job at a software company outside Santa Barbara, Calif. He recycles as much as possible and takes reusable bags to the grocery store.<\/p>\n

Still, his girlfriend, Shelly Cobb, feels he has not gone far enough.<\/p>\n

Ms. Cobb chides him for running the water too long while he shaves or showers. And she finds it “depressing,” she tells him, that he continues to buy a steady stream of items online when her aim is for them to lead a less materialistic life.<\/p>\n

Mr. Fleming, who says he became committed to Ms. Cobb “before her high-priestess phase,” describes their conflicts as good-natured — mostly.<\/p>\n

But he refuses to go out to eat sushi with her anymore, he said, because he cannot stand to hear her quiz the waiters. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s right. Median wage growth has been negligible for a decade or more, unemployment is in double digits, one of our two political parties has gone completely batshit insane, and the Times<\/cite> is giving us a story about horrible Yuppies trying to one-up each other on “green” living. Because, of course, the biggest issue facing the average American thinking about dinner is whether the sushi is local or sustainable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the less attractive features of the New York Times is its tendency to feature little profiles of horrible people. They’re not presented that way, of course, but that’s the effect– I read these articles, and just want to slap everybody involved. Today’s story on marital tensions caused by environmental issues is a fine… Continue reading The Latest from Awful Yuppie Town: Green Divorce<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,28,81,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_issues","category-politics","category-economics_1","category-society","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}