"milquetoast" seems a bit harsh, unless that word just describes someone who says stuff that requires the engagement of a basic level of brain functioning for understanding to occur.

@2 The word doesn't fit at all.
Maybe Brissey thinks it means mild-mannered.

I'm really enjoying his book. It has helped reframe some questions I've had for a long time about the relationship between salary and equity. It isn't exactly a mystery to know where it's going, but there's a lot of good background on many economic topics on the journey.

I saw Brissey at Joe Bar writing this. He was drinking milk and eating toast.

Huffington Post posted a long interview yesterday with both Piketty and Elizabeth Warren.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/02…

I reject the premise that it's possible to be "too intellectual for television"; though one can certainly be too smug for it. Granted, TV is the opiate of the masses, but there are still some programs with intellectual and artistic merit.

But then maybe that was Grant's own subtext all along...

Video quality looks like I'm watching it on an SNES, and it got stuck in buffer loop hell at only 25%, before he'd even finished introducing his ideas. Nice job, Comedy Central.

@ Knat: Their embeds and streaming are the worst. You'd think a medium so heavily dependent on video would have that one sorted by now.