by Team Grype | Apr 23, 2013 | Grypes |
One side-effect of the digital information age is that much clandestine information— formerly inaccessible to the average American— has become readily available, making the outrageous misbehavior of big business seriously apparent to anyone who bothers to look. These...
by Team Grype | Apr 18, 2013 | Grypes |
There’s a lot of noise flying around today over a Congressional vote that rejected slightly-stricter gun ownership laws—specifically, an expansion of background checks. What’s funny about it (if “funny” can be ironically twisted into an...
by Team Grype | Apr 16, 2013 | Grypes |
The business world— oft beset by legions of dull, mono-thinking clock-watchers devoid of creativity and imagination— innately values the guiding motivational force generated by leaders who “have vision.” Such confirmed visionaries are highly regarded for...
by Team Grype | Apr 11, 2013 | Grypes |
Seeing how our society has become so completely rooted in unreal, media-driven fantasy (including our TV news programming), one begins to notice the weird insistence of our culture to reimagine everyone as a special effects-enhanced, wish-fulfilling superhero…...
by Team Grype | Apr 4, 2013 | Grypes |
We idolize sincerity in others because we suffer from a cultural phobia that others won’t think we’re good enough. The self-help industry plays into that fear as new self-improvement books clog magazine racks at supermarket check-out lines. TV is rife with...
by Team Grype | Apr 2, 2013 | Grypes |
This has been an interesting week: an oil pipeline ruptured in Arkansas, flooding an entire town with dirty crude distilled from Canadian tar sands (yum!). There seems to be a news blackout in the area. Coincidence? Plus a gang of Atlanta teachers got busted...