Subway: Eat Fresh Plastic
Talk about your fortified bread: Subway has it No matter who you are or where you live or what you drive or whether you thought “The English Patient” … Read more
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The Highly Educated Working Poor: Adjunct Professors
Turning professors into ‘adjunct professors’: part-time, low-paid, no-benefit, no-tenure, temporary teachers. There’s a growing army of the working poor in our U.S. of A., and big contingents of … Read more
Congress Critters Can Be Lovable for a Price
The art of schmoozing members of Congress is important to lobbyists A counselor recently advised, “an informal setting,” saying that it is “an effective way to build a … Read more
Guillotine Time for the Rich?
Sympathy for poor rich folks F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that the rich are different from us. To which Hemingway indirectly snorted, “Yes, they have more money.” And … Read more
The Barack H. Obama 2014 State of the Union Drinking Game!
Official Rules of the 2014 State of the Union Drinking Game WHAT YOU NEED TO PLAY: Four taxpayers: One old, rich white guy investment-banker type wearing a Brioni … Read more
Have We Become Too Hi-Tech? Streaming Hulu in the Womb
Are we really advancing? Or just becoming hi-tech posers? Delivery drones that crash into telephone poles. Eyeglasses stockpiling video wherever the wearer walks. Dick Tracy wristwatches that do … Read more
The Millionaires’ Congress vs. The People
The millionaires in Congress can’t relate The rich truly are different from you and me — they tend to hold seats in Congress. Our nation purports to be … Read more
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Would Be Disastrous
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) being negotiated right now by countries and corporations would be a disaster for the world environment and world citizens. The agreement gives global corporations … Read more
What if Antibiotics no Longer Worked?
Antibiotic overdose: Hormone disrupters now in about 2,000 products Have you had your daily minimum requirement of triclosan today? How about your dosage of triclocarban? Chances are you … Read more
Ye Olde Predictions Piece: Circa 2014
Tradition dictates columnists trot out their predictions, or else… The dawn of the new year signals civilization’s return to several grand traditions, including the ancient hoary one requiring … Read more
