Freedom is just another word for whatever

Remember those "freedom from low prices" ads that used to run around the fourth of July? Because television was my babysitter, I remember them well and it was a fantastic notion that the birth of a nation entitled you to a discount of 25 cents on toilet paper.

Those days are over and it turns out that people don't like talking about low prices anymore because it invariably leads to unpleasant talk of sweatshops, child labor and other side effects of free market economics and global trade. Sometimes, you just want to get a purchase a 28 pound box of discount Cheese-its at Wal-Mart in peace.

Nowadays, when people mention freedom it's usually to remind you that you are "Free" to buy luxury items. If the President doesn't have a guilty conscience about his mistakes then there is no reason for you to feel guilty about your success.

In that respect, my favorite recent post by a local blogger highlights a local luxury living space selling for an insanely high price.

For the moment there is a nice view and it's centrally located next to nothing in particular but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be the last in line to dedicate money to the downtown condo ponzi scheme.

My only problem with this kind of condo is that it doesn't come equipped with a live in skank. I'm sure that the only reason to pay such stupidly high rents is in order to bag some broad that's impressed with that kind of thing (read: all of them) so I'm thinking that those kind of prices . . . They've just throw in some kind of live-in ho as a perk.