Hunger Games, USA
Posted By: Anchoress      2/8/2013 11:16:17 AM
The Anchoress, by Elizabeth Scalia
Original Article

The nation is already accustomed to watching “reality shows” where ordinary folk — their foibles and failures — are served up as entertainment. And we’re already comfortable with an idea of separate standards for the elite folk who fly private jets to global warming conferences and the rest of us, who are meant to stay home and hang out the wash. So, these two headlines crawling across my twitter timeline, one right behind the other, did not surprise me at all: