Imagine the doorbell rings and you answer it to find a plastic bag containing a long, black wig. You have no idea who wore it, but it's obviously been worn. It sort of smells funny from years of sweat or washings or storage in musty places. I know I would be freaked out and throw it in the trash immediately. I might even carry the trash out to the street, that's how freaked out I would be. Now imagine you are at an auction and bidding on celebrity detritus where that same wig, once the property of singer Michael Jackson, goes for $60,000. The person who buys it takes it home and.....does what with it? Perhaps places it on a shelf next to "the glove," which went for $275,000.
The fact that there are so many rich people who have so little idea of what to do with all their money is infuriating. Instead of whining about evil bankers and mean old Republicans, those would-be hippies and parroting protesters should Occupy Hollywood. Or Central Park West, Malibu, Vail, Chevy Chase and Shaker Heights! Occupy The Hamptons! Occupy Beverly Hills and Orange County! Occupy any or all of Barbra Streisand's five homes! Go camp out on the lawn of a mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, where the people inside the iron gates actually have the money made on Wall Street!
Now that's a revolution.
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