Indiscriminate Discrimination

Indiscriminate Discrimination

Since the 1970’s, the influx of a huge force of baby boomers into finance has led to the hyper-corporatization of the US business economy. This process— in conjunction with increasingly corrupt government agencies— has monetized the American consumer middle...
Lifestyles of The Thick and Shameless

Lifestyles of The Thick and Shameless

Whenever accusations of “social oppression” pop up, in any milieu— business, political, or cultural— there is an immediate rush to deny that it could ever happen in our free and oh-so-benevolent society. Some respond by attempting to diminish the validity...
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...