Showing posts with label filthy rich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label filthy rich. Show all posts

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Your toilet, my name, our shame


According to this story in The New York Times, philanthropists have been sinking to new lows of self-aggrandizement in dedicating theatre staircases, closets, and terraces in their names. With nothing left to name, will urinals be next?

Saturday, March 15, 2008

$100 million to name a library



All it takes to name one of the most significant public library buildings in the world is $100 million. Can you say vain?

Steve Schwarzman's $100 Million Fig Leaf