All my readers must remember the elegant prose,the thought of that dear Hollywood wordsmith Joyce Haber, and her many contributions to our national discourse.( If your reading this, do not pretend that you don’t know this writer and her exalted status, in the pantheon of American Letters.) A part of that singular contribution is the power stratifications of The A List, The B List etc. Enter the Foreign Policy honcho Mr. Leslie Gelb, who freely adapts Ms. Haber’s social/political metric, to his prescient examination of the job prospects, of the many contenders for positions that will open up, post the 2012 election. Of course, this all takes place with the aid of his editor, the illustrious Tina Brown, her husband or even an unpaid Ivy League intern, garnishing his leaden prose with maladroitly inserted one liners. This is amusing, but not in the way intended by the editor. To my regular readers who need some diversion from our grim political condition, see Mr. Gelb’s latest essay, it might just provide a diverting cognitive dissonance, amid the squalor of our collapse.

Sincerely yours,

Myra B.