by Team Grype | Jun 17, 2014 | Grypes |
So the Walmart of online-media-by-mail, Amazon.com, has now allowed its false “customers come first” mask to slip, revealing the ugly truth: it’s a corporation, and as such is now being pressured by its greedy shareholders to increase its profits...
by Team Grype | Jun 10, 2014 | Grypes |
A few words about our ever-useful (if sometimes ravenous) economic system, upon which rest the hopes and well being of the Western world: The god of capitalism is profit. In a capitalist environment, if a business venture of any kind wishes to survive, it must face...
by Team Grype | Jun 5, 2014 | Grypes |
There’s an interesting theory called Linguistic Determinism (sometimes referred to as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) that suggests that language limits the way we think about things. Meaning that if a language doesn’t have the necessary words to define a...
by Team Grype | Jun 3, 2014 | Grypes |
Okay, okay. We’ll do “guns” again. Sheesh. So… two weeks ago, on Friday, May 23rd— the same day the Isla Vista, California gunman went on a rampage that resulted in the deaths of six college students and injury to 13 others— approximately 5...
by Team Grype | May 27, 2014 | Grypes |
So, now that a few months have passed and the Affordable Care Act hasn’t spawned “Government Death Panels” (or whatever the hell paranoiacs were screaming about a few years back), I notice the political fallout over Obamacare has gotten pretty quiet....
