Phone Rage

In a new column, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is infuriated, incensed, and enraged by the world around him—particularly his new phone service

By Buzz Bissinger

I ’ve been a grumpy old man since I was a kid. Things get to me. Everything gets to me.

The word “discount” depresses me. Poshlost, as my mother used to call it, which roughly means “vulgar” in Russian. The more I spend on something, the more I think it’s worth it.