By Mark | September 8, 2014
Children, by their very nature, are stupid and easy to manipulate… which is why, over the years, we’ve seen corporations so aggressively pushing to increase their presence in our schools. It’s just good business. If you’re a company selling something like soda, it makes a lot more sense to target impressionable young kids with your […]
Posted in Education, Marketing, Uncategorized | Also tagged advertising, brand loyalty, Channel One, corn syrup, Corporate Crime, cults, Flint, L. Ron Hubbard, Learning How to Learn, Life Force Arts and Technology Academy, Pepsi, public education, Scientology, Smart Way, soda, The Way to Happiness, threats to public education, “sponsored educational material” |
If you follow this website, you know that, on occasion, I like to remind our Libertarian friends that there was a time in America’s not too distant past when we had children working, and often dying, in coal mines. It’s an ugly little part of our nation’s not so distant history, and, when confronted by […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Marketing, Uncategorized | Also tagged advertising, Big Soda, Capitalism, child labor, China, China National Tobacco Corporation, coal mines, Hunger Games, Libertarianism, Mockingjay, Pepsi, pouring rights, public health, Sichuan, smoking |
For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of traveling along the Detroit River lately, there’s apparently a new landmark on the Motor City waterfront – a three-story tall pile of petroleum coke, which covers an entire city block. According to a report in today’s New York Times, we have libertarian industrialists Charles and […]
Posted in Detroit, Environment, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alberta, Ambassador Bridge, Andy Hartz, Canada, carbon emissions, Charles Koch, China, CO2, corporatocracy, David Koch, Detroit River, Gary Peters, global climate change, Global Warming, John Conyers, Ken Boyd, Kerry Satterthwaite, Keystone XL pipeline, Koch brothers, Koch Industries, lame duck, Libertarianism, Lorne Stockman, Marathon Petroleum, Matty Moroun, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, oil, Oil Change International, oil sands, petcoke, petroleum coke, Pure Michigan, right-to-work, tar sands |
Inspired perhaps by our conversation a few days ago about the consumption of urban game, our friend Black Jake has caught and slaughtered a groundhog… But, it seems, he has a problem. Here’s his note. I am in a pickle, friends. I butchered a groundhog and got some dirt and groundhog hairs on the meat. […]
