“You shouldn’t shop at Wal-Mart. Their employees make low wages and the company doesn’t provide health insurance for them.”
My mother spoke as I continued to look for an available parking space in the sea of cars that is a Wal-Mart parking lot.
She continued: “And women are paid less for doing the same job as their male counterparts.” Read the rest of this entry »
“Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game…”
Like the famous Rolling Stones tune, Republicans and their Tea Party would like you to have sympathy for the job creators. Read the rest of this entry »
At a time when we are sending our young men and women to the Middle East to free Afghanis from 9th century fundamentalist ignorance, it is ironic and very wrong when the men and women of the Republican Party who aspire to the highest office in the nation proudly raise their hands and assert their disbelief in science, and, in particular, Evolution.
Surprisingly, almost a full century since the famous Scopes trial, the divide between science and fundamentalist religion in this country is wider than ever. In a 2010 Gallop poll, 40% of Americans surveyed rejected evolution.
From Egypt to the streets of suburban Cleveland, the Internet is reshaping how the young, from the disenfranchised to the bored and angry, gather, vent their rage and express themselves.
Law-enforcement officials in cities from Washington to Las Vegas have struggled to control flash mobs here in the United States. Meanwhile in England, The Labour Party, Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative-Liberal Democrat government have used water cannons and plastic bullets in an effort to curtail what they are labeling as rioting. It is more than that, though. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week, the most powerful company in the world became even more powerful. GOOGLE, Inc. of Mountain View California, just went into the cellphone and cable TV markets, purchasing Motorola Mobility for $12.5B. Google likes you to think of them as your fuzzy, open-source buddy. They are Big Brother, a corporate BORG, constantly learning and sucking the viability out of industry.
Google has learned the lesson of monopoly stripping from Microsoft. Make yourself big and scary, and the antitrust lawyers will come calling. Be adept at looking like the public champions, and the Justice Department leaves you alone.
They have managed to plunder the advertising coin of major newspapers and magazines, advertising, and web publishing keeping the web enslaved to its vast collective. They have their sights set on dominating music, entertainment, mobile telephony and, soon, the auto industry. Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. Cornel West, author and professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, and TV/radio talk host Tavis Smiley have created a lot of debate by criticizing President Obama’s leadership on a nationwide “poverty tour” that will take them to 16 poor communities across the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
Mitt Romney has been out on the stump, proving once again that he is a good automaton for scripted moments, but that his ability to engage in retail politics is a little lacking. The Fire Alarm disaster of late May was nothing by comparison to his Wonderama-rific “Corporations are people, my friend” speech yesterday. Legally right, morally wrong, and politically incorrect, the gaffe was even cat-called by fellow Republicans attending the Mittster’s stump speech late last week. 
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Our bureaucratic beast has been starved,and now it’s angry, hungry and looking for payback.
We’ve deprived it of revenue, the Federal Income Tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans don’t add up.
The Republican’s idea behind those cuts was to reduce the size of Government. It presupposes that, without revenue, the Government can’t spend. If the Government can’t spend, then it would have to become smaller, because there will be less that in which it can become involved, due to lack of funds.
This presupposition turns out to be quite wrong.
Shooting the messenger is not merely a literary metaphor for punishing the bearer of bad news. Lately it seems to be the way that those in power, whether it be in public or private organizations, literally eliminate anyone with the temerity to expose wrongs.
I sit in front of a panoramic window, looking out at the vastness of the Pacific, after a few days of holiday that, perhaps aptly, was taken as the crisis in Washington was coming to a head. While Congressmen were wrangling over whether you would wake up to lower property values and your 401K destroyed, I was witness to one of the rare events of nature. A group of male humpback whales engaging in a bubble net feeding. Read the rest of this entry »
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