In my last BSW blog entry, two weeks ago here, I noted with some amusement that Ben is now doing ads for Free Score which has something to do with credit reports.
I update this just to note that others of Ben's fans, critics, and "watchers" noticed this too, and had many more insightful things to say about it than I. Felix Salmon for example didn't find it at all amusing. Here is his recent post on the subject.
Likewise for The Columbia Journalism Review, which weighed in after Felix.
There are worse ways to advertise such an operation than to put Ben Stein out there with a cartoony squirrel, though. You could have three guys in pirate suits in a seafood restaurant bemoaning their fate. Or have them show up at a Renaissance fair, still with pirate suits. Is Stein replacing those losers?
The worst one is the bit where the guy is married and complaining that he should have run a credit report on his wife first, or he would ... what? have dumped her? And they say chivalry is dead. Its all far worse than that. Chivalry is decomposing.
Knowledge is warranted belief -- it is the body of belief that we build up because, while living in this world, we've developed good reasons for believing it. What we know, then, is what works -- and it is, necessarily, what has worked for us, each of us individually, as a first approximation. For my other blog, on the struggles for control in the corporate suites, see www.proxypartisans.blogspot.com.
Knowledge is warranted belief -- it is the body of belief that we build up because, while living in this world, we've developed good reasons for believing it. What we know, then, is what works -- and it is, necessarily, what has worked for us, each of us individually, as a first approximation. For my other blog, on the struggles for control in the corporate suites, see www.proxypartisans.blogspot.com.
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