delicious gold!

$25k sundae

New York City restaurant gets into Guinness with most expensive dessert. Meanwhile, about 20% of the world's population is digging through garbage cans for food, or going flat hungry. Closer to home, the dollar is plummeting and a record number of people are losing their homes.

In the very same city where you can order a sundae swimming with gold flakes, starving children are begging for scraps. This is the very definition of obscene, and hopefully anyone who buys it will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes.

I know Serendipity probably did this just for publicity, but try Googling "expensive desserts". They can't all be publicity stunts. What the hell is wrong with the world? Does anyone else ever get the feeling that we're re-living the last days of the Roman Empire?? The only way this could be more apallingly crass is if you vomited it up, then ordered a 2nd one. Maybe wash it down with a bottle of panda tears.

Dear Top Tax Bracket: Just retreat to your villas and wait for the end. Don't worry, us starving masses will let you know when it comes.

And I swear, this is like the 3rd time in the past month I've seen some ridiculous puffpiece about obscenely conspicuous consumerism. Pakistan suspends their constitution, we edge ever closer to yet another clusterfuck of a war, the Senate rubberstamps the approval of an Attorney General that doesn't consider waterboarding torture, and what does the New York Times report on? EXPENSIVE DESSERTS.

Bang-up job, mainstream media! Keep bringing us that hard-hitting journalism!!