I am psyched about the GDP! Not because it’s rising — which it is — but because it could be a major agent in changing how mothers are valued in this country. The gross domestic product measures wealth apparently, but it has incorrectly evolved in the minds of people who pay attention to these things as a gauge of the country’s well-being, according to this super-interesting, economics-for-dummies story in The Times. Some economists are trying to repair the quality-of-life indiscrepancy by — drumroll, please — incorporating unpaid work like raising children. These adjustments could actually raise the GDP, which is nice and all, but the piece I’m psyched about is this: by putting a price on child-rearing, such work becomes tangible to economists and policymakers — and that could score the ladies mandated maternity leave. How cool is that? Economics is hot!

First she tried to appropriate HRC’s 18 million cracks. Now Sarah Palin is moving in on my territory, claiming to be the VPILF. Ha! This radical light-
weight is really the VPitch.

Here is the Bazaar homage to the “Airplane!” homage to the severed-horsehead scene in “The Godfather.” I think the idea is that Lily Donaldson is trying to seduce the stallion away from Mrs. Clarence Oveur. But he looks indifferent to her advances. Score one for the salacious housewife.

Stolen shoes would be so much more devastating than burgled jewels. Smart girls insure their rocks.