Thank you to cartoonist Barbara Smaller for brilliantly summing up one of my nagging thoughts on consumerism and “stuff” in the November 15, 2010 issue of The New Yorker:
November 14, 2010
Cartoonist nails it
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November 14, 2010 at 11:22 am
Reminds me of a line in a song I once wrote:
It takes two trees to save only one,
by the age of logic I sure feel surpassed.
As long as all that’s sacred just a gimmick in you store,
I ain’t going your way no more.