I often wonder, as do my friends, why Americans look to someone like
Martha Stewart to instruct them about lifestyle fashions and interior
decorating.

Has it ever dawned on this woman's devotees that she is purely and
simply an entrepreneural businesswoman who has marketed herself very
well? Now, I have no quarrel with this method of making money, but
surely one would have to be very gullible to hang on her every word
about what cushions are de rigeur, what dinner napkins to use when
entertaining the Top Brass, and so on .....

That M.S. committed fraud and is now really having one big bitch about
how petty people are about her conviction and sentence is very very
funny. Now that her bubble has well and truly burst, how many people
will return to kneel at the altar of her somewhat flimsy and overtly
commercial propaganda about how you all should decorate your homes,
select the towels, choose the dinner service, etc. etc.

Ah well, as they say, it takes all sorts .....

Cheers