The Needs of the One

The Needs of the One

Multinational Corporations, like all corporations funded by speculative shareholders, are legally obligated to pay shareholders the highest possible profit at year’s end. To keep investors happy, that profit is kept high by cutting production costs…...
The Right To Bare Arms

The Right To Bare Arms

In a recent article in the entertainment trade paper Variety, high-powered Hollywood money man Harvey Weinstein publicly called for California to expand its production tax incentives to make film production in California more financially attractive to investors. Now,...
The Opium of the Privileged

The Opium of the Privileged

A swift glance at my TV reveals last year’s merry band of Minimum Wage reactionaries are back on the warpath. Luckily I’m too smart to buy into all the partisan shrieking and finger pointing from both sides. Trust me: if you get far enough either right OR...
Burrito Graffito

Burrito Graffito

In the last few years (since the various developments of the optimistically-labeled “Arab Spring”) there’s been much online chatter about a similar “American Spring”— i.e, the potential for disgruntled American citizens to overthrow their...
Goes Without Saying

Goes Without Saying

It’s odd— most people seem to think that being a professional politician in modern day America is all about sitting around, smoking expensive cigars, attending occasional committee meetings to vote on some trivial bit of unnecessary legislation, then scarfing...