Mark Steyn wrote:

And now, inconceivably, Martha Stewart has stepped down as chairman of Martha Stewart. I don't see how that can work. Martha isn't an officer of the company, she's the product. Martha Stewart Paint is not paint in the sense that Sherwin Williams Paint (its distributor) is. If Sherwin had a serious crack habit and Williams was going out nights and cruising as a transvestite hooker, it wouldn't make much difference; you'd still have the paint. That's not the case with Martha's "Pressed Leaves" hue: She's not selling paint, she's selling Martha in paint form. Martha's products are like her gilded pine cones. You can't scrape off the gilding and pretend that what's left is unchanged in value.