We’re on vacation this week, so you’ll have to get by on Brownstoner Lite this week. To help amuse yourselves, we’re going to throw out a discussion topic every day. Have fun.

Question: In a shocking turn of events last week, a reader stood up and identified himself as, gasp, a flipper and proud of it. Which raises the question of why the term flipper has acquired such negative connotations. The argument could be made that they are either 1) arbitrageurs or 2) home improvers. We suspect that it’s because people are 1) jealous if the flipper made a bundle of money for doing nothing or 2) resentful because the flipper did a crappy, corner-cutting renovation. How do you feel about flippers?