OH MY GOD!!!! One of the authors of the Time article, Jim Steele, is my ex-fiancee's father! I drank jug wine at his house and played Super Mario Kart with him! And almost married his daughter!

Do you realize who these authors are?! They've won 2 Pulitzer Prizes in journalism when they worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and then moved to Time magazine. There is no Pulitzer for magazines; instead, there's the Polk Award. Naturally, these guys have won a record number of Polk Awards and are editors-at-large at Time, meaning they can do WHATEVER they want to. Jim's also had a #1 Bestseller called "America: What Went Wrong?" that was mentioned by Bill Clinton in his last State of the Union Address. He's about the sweetest guy you'll ever meet! His mother died young, he grew up in a trailer, and here he is, still fighting against injustice!

Oh my god, this is making me cry. I wish his name wasn't posted; oh god, a man crying, it's so lame. He's a good man and he believes what he's writing, and he works very very hard to tick off Congress to get laws changed. He speaks for the rest of the US, the ones who've been screwed by the essential inequity of capitalism. I love the guy... god, I hate it when I start crying, I never stop. The empathy and understanding he had when I did the dumbest things (like getting caught in the shower with my ex-fiancee at their place when Jim and his wife came home early from a vacation), to listening deeply to what I said about my career as a neuroscientist. What an amazing person. Thank God he's turned his eye our way. I only wish I could tell him how much he means to me, since I never demonstrated it during the 4 years I knew him.