Dubious Thanks

Dubious Thanks

There is a corporate tendency to embrace and reinforce historically-inaccurate nonsense in order to sell products— including the ridiculously incorrect notion of America’s “First Thanksgiving.” Each November the interwebs brim with gushing...
Tweet Like an Egyptian

Tweet Like an Egyptian

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, promoting the recently released documentary “Inequality for All,” recently said that there’s a link between growing income disparity and the wave of states, including California, that are offering tax incentives...
The Replicator

The Replicator

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, there’s a surge of online outrage at the Walmart corporation: apparently the benevolent overlords at Walmart have deigned to allow the creation of a special holiday food drive to encourage their cruelly-exploited,...
Big Friendly Button

Big Friendly Button

The dictionary defines a corporation as “a registered business entity considered by the government to have the same legal rights as a person.” Which doesn’t sound too sinister or threatening. They are often just benign companies with a bit of extra...
The Origin of Feces

The Origin of Feces

These days there seems to be lots of vitriol being slung around by various self-proclaimed geniuses and political pundits over the presumed opinions of America’s Founding Fathers— those “fathers” being the relatively small cadre of patriot leaders...
Burrito Sociology

Burrito Sociology

We’ve always tried to keep from bashing all corporations all the time, and have never hesitated to celebrate good corporate citizenship whenever it came to our attention— but these days it’s getting hard to like the massive corporate machine that runs our...