As if it weren't already too much of a propaganda channel programmed to let us baby killers on the coasts cram our ideas of fun – fashion, haute cuisine, gays – down the throats of the red states, Bravo is now cooking up a show whose pomposity handily trumps Top Chef and Proj Run: "'Polo,' a docu-series about polo players and their significant others."

How exciting! Now, as the economy slows to a trickle, everyone with time to waste from losing their jobs can cozy up to their TVs and watch a show about young rich people in love who play a tremendously expensive game to the delight of older rich people. Doesn't that sound like your idea of fun? You'll finally be able to use "chukker" during Scrabble.

Oh who are we kidding, you won't be able to afford cable or Scrabble by the time Polo airs. Forget we mentioned it.

HISTORIAN: BEATLES, STONES WERE FAT CATS, NOT REVOLUTIONARIES "Pop culture icons John Lennon and Mick Jagger were clever capitalists who cashed in on the mood of the 1960s, not spokesmen for a generation seeking revolution, a British academic said Thursday. Cambridge University historian David Fowler said that so-called 'Swinging London' was in fact beyond most normal people, 'less a golden age for the nation's young than a celebration of wealth by its social elite. Groups like The Beatles were basically capitalists interested in enriching themselves through the music industry. They did about as much to represent the interests of the nation's young people as The Spice Girls did in the 1990s.'"

Never has elitism been so easy to see.

Check out this handy-dandy breakdown of the presidential candidates' homes and vehicles, and get ready to puke at the extravagance of Barack Obama, the elitist. I mean, seriously, a Ford Hybrid? What objectionable decadence. I sure hope John McCain can find respite from that unrelatable jerk in one of his eight homes (maverick mansions?), or on his private jet.

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