During Super Bowl Sunday...

...Americans will be eating chicken wings—more than 1.25 billion of them over the weekend. That's four wings for every man, woman and child in the U.S., according to the National Chicken Council. Wings are three times more likely to be eaten on game day than any other time of year.

An estimated 4.4 million pizzas will be ordered from Pizza Hut, Domino's Pizza and Papa John's on Sunday. Pizza Hut says 80% of its pizzas will likely have pepperoni, the most common topping no matter the time of year. Domino's Pizza will have 50 computer experts on hand to watch over the online ordering system.


The Super Bowl is also "the largest single event for carrots." And yet we still want more economic growth in this country. The problem is always slow economic growth. Obama will not be reelected if the economy is standing still. The stunning thing about America is that many of its citizens do not know it is the end of the road. The problem is not growth but the bizarre concentration of so much of its socially generated wealth in a few hands. Poverty is not even real in this country; poverty is fabricated and imposed. The real is actually Romney; the illusion is the person waiting at a food bank or sleeping on the street or being evicted from a home or being drowned by hospital bills. This society's greatest trick has been to make its wealth seem unreal. Poverty turns out to be the American dream.