Creative Class

I’ve been having a blast guest-blogging over at Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish. If you haven’t seen it already, check out my fellow guest blogger Richard Posner’s latest post reacting to an e-mail from Alan Greenspan.

I’m part of the team filling in this week for the amazing Andrew Sullivan over at the Daily Dish at The Atlantic Online. Here’s what Andrew has to say:

I’m due for a break from the web for a week. Aides de blog Patrick Appel and Chris Bodenner will keep the Dish al dente in my absence. I’m working on an essay for the magazine and catching up on some reading – things I cannot seem to get done when I’m blogging twelve hours a day. Atlantic Correspondents Richard Posner, Richard Florida, and Lane Wallace have also agreed to contribute this coming week. Usually when I try to take a breather, some epic events occur – popes die, icons are shot, etc – so look busy.

I’m grateful to Andrew and my Atlantic online editor Bob Cohn for the opportunity, and humbled to be in such esteemed company. I want to thank my online CCE editor Elizabeth McGolerick and my MPI and CCG teams, especially Patrick Adler and Charlotta Mellander, for supporting my blogging.

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Creative Class Exchange will continue life as usual. My posts for the The Daily Dish and otherwise, along with my Twitter feed, will continue to appear here. And our other bloggers will be posting usual.

A few days ago, I came across an article that suggested in 40 years the whole population will be obese! Well, we know that about 30 percent already is and Richard Posner has suggested that this is individual choice. Well, I would venture to say that the creative class is, by and large, rather fit. They are rich, right. The rich and the creative are not obese. Why, they eat better and exercise more.

So what is the creative class doing to solve this huge social problem? What are the public policy issues? The answer, Victory Bread! Yes, the British response to winning WWII. You would think that the creative class could figure out that the solution to this epidemic would be to throw out the microwave, that menace of modernity, and buy a bread machine: It’s cheaper, it’s healthier, and it’s better for the environment. Is this creative or what?