Orange Crush

Orange Crush

We haven’t done a “why working in corporate America sucks” blog around here lately, so let’s shake the doom and gloom off our boots (leftover from wading through the latest riptide of political and corporate malevolence) and take a little...
Equal On Both Sides

Equal On Both Sides

You’ll be pleased to know that the United States Government is taking money directly from your paycheck and depositing it straight into the bank accounts of various megacorporations in the form of “corporate subsidies.” Or to put it more plainly:...
Mr. Horrible

Mr. Horrible

In the midst of the recent batch of assorted overseas atrocities, it makes a certain amount of sense that more subtle foreign threats might go unnoticed. One example that reads like a plot hatched by an international super-villain is the recent World Bank Group...
Heart Attack

Heart Attack

It’s amazing what people can convince themselves is true. A recent National Science Foundation study showed that 25% of Americans actually think the sun revolves around the Earth. There are a lot of good sources, online and off, who labor to dispel...
There’s No Place Like Home

There’s No Place Like Home

So… today our hardworking government guardians-of-information-transfer over at the FCC are set to propose new net neutrality rules which, they assure us, will ALLOW content creators to PAY INTERNET PROVIDERS to guarantee faster access to consumers. Well, thank...
Splash From The Past

Splash From The Past

So J.K. Rowling is officially writing more Harry Potter books despite her previous insistence that she had no plans to continue on in that vein. Except that “vein” is a “vein” of gold in a massive goldmine, and her adult fiction novel kind of...