I hope Dolphin is right that there exists an omni-present left wing media that complains loudly when anyone dares identify unemployment insurance recipients as lazy. It would be nice, though, if the left (and this article) argued that the way we became modern and advanced and all, is from being a nation that, however inadequately, appreciates and supports free play and whimsical invention. It's a pity when even the left -- the wing responsible for societal innovation, true progress -- has to make itself seem as bourgeois boring as possible ("We're a nation that appreciates the virtues of 9 to 5") in order to be taken seriously. (Cause seriously, the "California" culture that produced Apple and Pixar, which just never seems to stop innovating and being relevant, is one which values free play -- recess and fun -- as much as it does back to the books, life is a box -- naught but a plain, boring, cardboard box -- rectumtude.) (Actually, it probably doesn...