SNIPPET OF THE DAY – AT 10:56 A.M. ET: 

Elizabeth Warren proved her fiscally prudent bona fides in a recent profile in Vogue magazine, after making a cup of tea with a used tea bag stored in her desk.  The profile of the Harvard law professor, who is charged with overseeing the creation of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was published in the most recent edition of the magazine, and opens with the anecdote about Warren and the tea bag....Warren acknowledges she can't bring herself to throw away a still functional tea bag.

“I know,” said Warren. “But I just can’t stand the waste of throwing out a tea bag after one use. It’s like a knife in the gut for me.”

A knife in the gut, over a tea bag?  I wonder how she reacts to genocide.  Do we have a case of misplaced priorities here?

December 27, 2010