David Granger on “The Best of Times” currently underway.
Here’s David Granger, editor-in-chief of Esquire, in his March column:
Gas is under two bucks. There’s never been a better time to buy a new car (half off! 0 percent!) or a new house (depressed prices + 5 percent over thirty years = unprecedented opportunity). Tables are available in the vast majority of excellent restaurants, to eat reduced-price menus. TV has never been better (30 Rock, Fringe, Friday Night Lights, plus everything on the winter season of cable). The new TiVo box offers miraculous access to, essentially, the entire history of filmed entertainment on the best generation of flat-screens ever, which retailers are giving away. Airports are way less crowded, there are empty seats on flights, and those flights land on time more often. [. . .] All in all, it’s easier to live a more enjoyable life right now than at any time in recent memory . . . if we can just convince ourselves to go ahead and do so.
A good counterpoint to the drumbeat of lousy economic reports.
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An interesting positive spin on the state of the nation.
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