America has the leadership it deserves, and when this country finally finishes its thrashing, shrieking, pitiful death throes, hopefully ignorant, lazy people will know enough to stay the hell out of its government, for their own sake.
There should be no investor class in the first place; the existence of institutional investors at all is a major contributor to our current socio-economic reality’s absolute fuckedupness. I’ll start with my model of how I think things should be then point out the most significant divergences and their ramifications. I’ll finish by praying to [...]
Since when has Whole Foods been synonymous with social progressiveness? People are getting upset about WF’s CEO John Mackey, who wrote an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal criticizing Obama’s health care legislation. This is confusing for enlightened people who are sure that every intelligent person agrees with them about how necessary and beneficial [...]
Here‘s a link to a financial company which predicts a global period of economic, social, and political upheaval beginning in the next few years. People with bad news tend to be labelled pessimists and ignored because most people prefer feeling good to having a realistic perspective. Of course, this is only a temporary good feeling, [...]
I. Thomas Jefferson was a very conservative politician who believed that a government’s only role was to secure the governed’s rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (and nothing beyond that). The cornerstone of Jefferson’s memorial in the nation’s capital was laid by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who presided over a disastrous expansion of [...]
I have a short intellectual temper. Occasionally I see something online which infuriates me, and this blog entry and the comments which ensue are certainly such things. It’s a blog entry showing the text of one-star reviews of The Diary of Anne Frank made by dumb teenagers on Amazon.com. The blog comments are all exasperated [...]