The problem with presidents
We tend to think of presidents and presidential candidates as autonomous actors. They are not.We'd like to believe that if we just elect the right person, someone with the right stuff, a reformer, a...
View ArticleTurning Underemployment into Creative Deployment
For those of you who've been getting too little work lately (or none at all), let me offer some words of essential encouragement, because we're not out of this economic rough spot by a long shot.You...
View ArticleAT & T: Insanely off the rails!!
I haven't posted anything here in a while but over the last month or so I've had an experience with AT&T that is so disquieting that it has caused myself and everybody in my household to shake our...
View ArticleLearning To Climb A Utility Pole (Harder Than You Probably Think)
Pole climbing class was the final step in the process of getting hired to be a phoneman and it was clearly designed as a test of one’s willpower, a “weeder” class as we used to say in college. My...
View ArticleTo Everyone Else Who Has To Work Through The Holidays
Maybe you're a cop or a firefighter or, like me, a utility worker. Maybe you're working a cash register at a gas station. Or selling concessions or parking cars at a sporting event. Or driving an...
View ArticleBootstrap, Inc. Shares Surge on Job Cuts, Unemployment Insurance Cutoff
Shares of Bootstrap, Inc. (NASDAQ: BOOT) surged to another all-time high today, as the company announced that it's eliminating all American jobs and shifting production to countries without a minimum...
View ArticleThe NFL has managed to diminish my favorite pastime.
Football has been my favorite sport for many years. Some of my fondest memories are of going with my Dad as an 8 year old to high school football games he officiated on weekends; and for close to a 20...
View ArticleOffensive Cadillac ad
I was astounded by this Cadillac ad http://www.youtube.com/... It shows a fit middle aged man gloating about his pool, mansion and of course his Cadillac. All of which he is entitled to because he...
View ArticleWorst President in Modern Times...Really?
Quinnipiac just released a "survey" that claims to reflect general feelings that the public has about attitudes towards President Obama. Upon closer analysis the green curtain reveals the typical...
View ArticleThe Need To Vote In November
We need to remember that, while 2014 may be a midterm election year, it's just as important that we vote like we did in the 2012 presidential election cycle & like we will do in the 2016 cycle....
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Editorial Cartoon - Gender Pay Gap Empathy
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Get your corporate mistletoe off our turkey
It's Christmastime, everybody. A week before Thanksgiving. This year it began before the jack-o'-lanterns decomposed and the Elsa costumes were hung away. Every year Christmas creep begins earlier and...
View ArticleHouse Votes 378 to 46 to Give Corporate America a Big Christmas Present
Today, the House voted to give corporate America a big Christmas present: lots and lots of tax breaks.Although many Democrats have been pushing for a two-year tax extender package, the House decided to...
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Bernie Sanders Exposes 18 Top Corporate Tax Dodgers
Many folks around the country are just discovering the new Democratic Presidential Candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont). They are learning Sanders has been on an incredibly bold mission to...
View ArticleSuper Stupid Sunday Spectacle
If you want to see a microcosm of the decay in American society and culture, you need look no further than today's Super Bowl! From the inane three hour Pre game show to the display of military might...
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Cartoon: Changing times in America
Click image to enlarge.Fighting mainstream social progress has never ultimately proven to be a good look, and it's bad for business to look a fool. Thus, one of the most reliable events following...
View ArticleBernie Sanders calls for ending the Exploitation of the Prison Labor
I've wondered what Senator Sanders was talking about, ever since I heard him say this:Bernie Sanders -- facebook.comIt is morally repugnant and a national tragedy that we have privatized prisons all...
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3 Blockbuster Supreme Court Cases that Could Spell Catastrophe for Workers...
Corporate America has been tireless in trying to sharply limit, or simply eliminate, all class action lawsuits. When corporations break the law by doing things such as not paying workers for time they...
View ArticleOur toilet paper is getting smaller
A friend of mine back in January linked me a story about how toilet paper is getting smaller. I think he did this in the hopes I’d write a story about it.I did not.I hadn’t noticed. It wasn’t a...
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Spotify Hits a Sour Note with Secretive Fine Print
On a normal day, a typical conversation about Spotify might be centered on a debate over what kind of oddball would create a playlist with a metal song by the Deftones next to a modern classical piece...
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Amid falling profits, Monsanto announces big layoffs
Are their profits going down simply because of the market? Monsanto Co., agricultural giant, will be eliminating 2,900 jobs. They are saying that this is a part of their cost reductions and falling...
View ArticleSeven Biggest Cheers at Bernie Sanders Rally in Cleveland (video clips)
On Monday night, a crowd of some 7000 packed into the Cleveland State University arena to see, hear and rally for Bernie Sanders, as he pursues the United States presidency. Sanders spoke for 80...
View ArticleHillary Clinton and Wall Street/Corporate America (1): "Cut it Out" is...
I have been reading about these rehashed diaries on how Hillary is so evil that she’s ‘in bed with Wall Street and Corporate America.’ I decided to compile snippets and reasons why Hillary has been...
View ArticleMy own Trump-like moment
This isn’t about Donald Trump. Or, not so much about him as about a particular kind of man.Listening to those vile, reprehensible, evil comments last night actually, for the first time in my life,...
View ArticleThe Fascist Hero: Gabriele D'Annunzio
D'annunzio was called Il Duce before Mussolini was. I’m cross-posting this text, in shortened form, from my own blog Politraction. I’m interested in looking back at various incarnations of Fascism and...
View ArticleThe 'black ceiling' means that black women still aren't getting top positions...
Despite advancing in education to become one of the nation’s most educated groups, black women continue to face barriers to obtaining chief executive positions in corporate America. While there are...
View ArticleThe Struggle for the "Soul" of the Democratic Party
December 14, 2017Introduction:Dear Citizens, Elected Officials, and Democratic Party Officers:What follows below, in two parts, is an essay of criticism and hope, about the deepest commitments of the...
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I am still upset ABOUT Anthony Bourdain
I have had a hard time watching Anthony Bourdain’s award-winning show “Parts Unknown” since his death because there is an added slickness and self-aggrandizement to these latest episodes, with each...
View ArticlePG&E’s Negligence A Much Bigger To Threat to Climate Than Its’ Bankruptcy
Wildfires threaten not only our safety but also our climate. This summer, much of northern California has been blanketed with an ashy haze that shrouds normally visible peaks from Mount Shasta to...
View ArticleDear Sen Coons->Walmart enforces new policy prohibiting open carry =...
Dear Senator Coons,In his post-debate interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, former Congressman Beto O’Rourke boldly declared “The NRA is no match for @MomsDemand and @AMarch4OurLives.”xâÂÂThe NRA...
View ArticleBiden tells CEOs 'My job is to help people' and by 'people,' he doesn't mean...
President Joe Biden met with CEOs of some of the nation's biggest companies to gain their support for the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan currently in the works in Congress. Biden struck the...
View ArticleHow Corporate America Uses Fake 'Institutes'& "Councils' to Con Consumers.
The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) bills itself as a“nonprofit, worldwide organization whose mission is to provide science that improves human health and well-being and safeguards the...
View ArticleLive on The Brief: Hope for reforming gun laws, and Corporate America is in...
We’ve got a stellar line up Tuesday! Do you feel helpless about the politics of gun control? After three fresh shooting tragedies, there’s reason for hope. Not only are the politics of the issue...
View ArticleMcConnell declares free enterprise dead to the GOP
It's all happened so quickly, it's been easy to miss the major implications of Republicans deciding that entities like Major League Baseball and Corporate America are now on the wrong side of their...
View ArticleMcConnell decides threatening corporate America might have unintended...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has had quite a week. On Monday, McConnell threatened American businesses with "serious consequences" if they spoke out against the rash of GOP voter suppression...
View ArticleIt’s official, the Republican Party has lost its collective mind
Every politician and political party plays partisan politics with a healthy dose of hypocrisy, but the Republicans, once again taking their cues from the failed dictator Trump, have really upped the...
View ArticleAnti-baseball, anti-business—GOP lawmakers make clear there's no safe space...
As an unmoored Republican Party searches for ways to curry favor with a base eager for sugar highs, the GOP is becoming ever more a party of opportunists in search of attention, however fleeting....
View ArticleAs hundreds of corporate heavy hitters go to bat for voting rights, another...
Household names such as Amazon, Google, and Warren Buffett joined together with hundreds of other companies and CEOs to demonstrate a united front against "any discriminatory legislation" in a...
View ArticleRepublicans bashing corporate America say Democrats are the real threat
In the latest of installment of GOP opportunism, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took aim at corporate America while speaking at last weekend's Republican National Committee retreat. In a recording obtained...
View ArticleBiden administration capitalizes on growing rift between American businesses...
As the decades-long bond between Republicans and corporate America sours, the Biden White House is seeking to take full advantage of the schism and the openings it leaves for Democrats. Although...
View ArticleTexas Republicans invite showdown with major corporations over GOP clampdown...
At a briefing last month in support of a new round of voter suppression bills, Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott admitted, "I don’t know how many—if any—elections in the state of Texas in 2020 were altered...
View ArticleLooks Like Chris Christie Will Need Corporate Welfare To "Sell" His S****y...
Susie Madrak over at Crooks and Liars has the latest on Chris Christie’s book and rehabiliation tour. SPOILER ALERT: Christie’s book is a flop with the public.A senior publishing source with access...
View ArticleSEC proposes rule to require carbon reporting in financial statements - this...
About an hour ago, the SEC approved a rules proposal to require any SEC publicly registered company to report their carbon emissions in their financial reports. This will open any number of interesting...
View ArticleSign and send to Congress: Reward work, not just wealth. Increase taxes on...
Our broken tax system has long rewarded wealth over work, and President Joe Biden recognizes that needs to change. As he proclaimed at the State of the Union, "No billionaire should pay a lower tax...
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DeSantis Message To Corporate America: I Can Beat Biden! So Give Me Large...
Ron DeSantis has a two-pronged message for Corporate America donors in NY. First, “I CAN BEAT BIDEN!” Next up, “I don’t have all of Trump’s baggage.” Those two things need a super secret ingredient...
View ArticleCall to Action: to Fast Food or to Activist?
Throughout college I’ve done many jobs: taking drive through orders, seating people at fancy restaurants, shoveling mulch and planting Bromeliads, lifeguarding, giving campus tours and helping new...
View ArticleThe Return of the Rat Race: my productivity being stifled in real time
I was so exhausted today. I laid down after work and got up at 10:30pmThis system of labor only stifles productivity.I have to give a piece of my time to a corporation. A piece of my life is gone...
View ArticleCorporations, don't bend the knee to bigotry!
In a betrayal of monumental proportions, Target and Bud Light, familiar household names known as much for their national appeal as for their previously vaunted pro-LGBTQ positions, have seemingly caved...
View ArticleWould DeSantis Cancel the Multiverse?
Ah, the multiverse. That wondrous array of infinite possibilities.Truth is, comic book reading boomers have known of the multiverse for quite some time now. It was DC, who, according to some accounts,...
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