THIS IS EVEN MORE OF A DISGRACE

Two years after my previous post, the "New Yorker Weekender Bag" is still a black plastic insult to its readers, but now the magazine has the good sense to have removed the New Yorker logo. It is easy to see why a magazine would not want to be associated with this bag. It is less easy to see why a magazine whose readers conceive of it as the epitome of the upper middle in America would continue to advertise a "gift" of a "weekender bag" to its subscribers that looks and smells like toxic waste.