It was with keen interest that I read of Rolling Stone's recent message about downsizing their magazine.  The official statements speak of "lowering production costs" and the need to "maintain competitiveness".  But rest assured the content would remain the same, advertising costs remain the same and so on and so forth.  We all know the official statement from Rolling Stone is jive turkey for "We are laying some people off to help meet our profit goals."  It sounds like news of the so-called death of capitalism has not reached the offices of Rolling Stone.

 

In fact, for the people who didn't mind trashing Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, I can only issue the following insult:  Rolling Stone is a capitalist business trying to reach profit goals.  Wait a minute, I understood Rolling Stone to be a merry band of socialist self-proclaimed progressives.  Right, here it is:  I can only say that Rolling Stone is a psuedo-intellectual group of hypocrites who talk a good Marxist game but walk like greedy capitalists.  Their embrace, and subsequent denial, of the very things they rail against in their latte-fueled psychotherapy sessions they call articles is predictably ironic.

 

Back to the trashing that Rolling Stone issued against John McCain and Sarah Palin.  I only read one article on each, but one was enough for me.  Actually that is a stretch as I was unwilling to continue reading either of the adolescent rants after the first few paragraphs.  I didn't mind the f-bombs so much, these were expected.  What I found hard to digest was the sheer hatred of a system (directed at defenders of this institution, McCain and Palin) that has allowed so much opportunity for the entire Rolling Stone community.  Including it's readers who I remember from my college days as do-nothing, yet smug, know-it-alls who march to the magazine's ideological tune.