Word of the day (week) (month) (year) - you choose!

While reading about this out of proportion IPO by Facebook today - I happened across an article regarding the neuvaux wealth of the Silicon Valley of California... or at least the wealth that is there until Jerry Brown finds a way to tax it, box it, and ship it to Sacramento for redistribution at his direction.

In any event - in this land of $1,200 blue jeans, $20,000 bicycles, basement theaters.... the word of the day is "cognoscenti"!

n. pl. co·gno·scen·ti (-t)

A person with superior, usually specialized knowledge or highly refined taste; a connoisseur.

Apparently, those folks can wear these expensive jeans or ride those ridiculously priced bikes because the unwashed crowds do not know or understand their value. Only their fellow millionaires (and there are a thousand of them in the neighborhood) understand and appreciate them.

Ain't that nice.......

Don't misunderstand, folks, I ain't knocking the accumulation of wealth through innovation and hard work - I'm knockin' the pretense that sometimes accompanies it. Apparently those unwashed mobs can recognize an expensive car - so the swells don't drive them to their private airports and jets - they put on their $1200 jeans to drive ordinary cars to avoid being spotted.... you figger it out...