This is Your Brain on Aphorisms: Orange Squeal
What do you get when you combine cowardly-yellow with hate-red? Orange squeal! Our political landscape is being poisoned by agent orange. A guilty party leads the guile-tea party. … Read more
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A Labor Strike in Hollywood? Why Should You Care?
Why are these rich whiners staging a labor strike in Hollywood? In today’s reality, projects are rich, but writers are poor. Tinsel Town! Glamour! Riches! So why are … Read more
How Inequality Happens
One reason these Wall Street types make so much is that theirs is a dirty job — they are why inequality happens. I don’t usually cover hard-luck sob … Read more
Why Trust High-Tech Billionaires to Save Humanity?
A clique of arrogant and abusive high-tech billionaires is leading a careless assault on nature, and our future. Here’s an interesting fact: Dinosaurs dominated Earth for 165 million … Read more
What Is “Iyyikowa,” and Why Do We Need More of It?
The Choctaw have a word, “iyyikowa,” that means serving those in need… and we need more of it. Charles Dickens, writing about the inequality and social turmoil leading … Read more
What’s the Charitable Thing to Do About Widespread Inequality?
The need for charity only exists because we’re tolerating widespread inequality created by power elites. Our society has coined expressions like “philanthropist” and “season of giving” to encourage … Read more
Where to Get the Money to Start Fixing Inequality
Is fixing inequality even possible? When Jesse Jackson ran a strong populist campaign for president in 1988, advocating bold new policies and programs to address fixing inequality, establishment … Read more
Trump to Working Class: ‘Adios, Chumps’
Lavish payouts to top-floor bosses — combined with a miserliness toward rank-and-file employees who actually produce the corporate wealth — is creating an untenable income disparity in corporate … Read more
Inequality is Feeding America
Inequality doesn’t just come out of the blue; it’s intentionally created by decisions that elites make Inequality doesn’t just come out of the blue; it’s intentionally created by … Read more
Where Does Inequality Come From?
The vast inequality that’s rending our society is not a natural, inevitable or accidental phenomenon. The vast inequality that’s rending our society is not a natural, inevitable or … Read more
