As it’s been a while since we’ve discussed America’s rapidly consolidating and progressively evil funeral industry, I thought that I’d share this comment, which was left a few days ago on Reddit, in a thread about industry secrets, by an unnamed individual claiming to be a funeral director. [I’ve added several links, but otherwise the […]
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Big Death… How the funeral industry is killing us
Posted in Other, Uncategorized Also tagged A Family Undertaking, All Saints, anus, big death, biohazard, casket, chemicals, coined phrases, coining new words and phrases, Corporate Crime, cremation, cremation societies, Death, deathcare, Dignity Memorials, embalming fluid, Erika Nelson, eye caps, FTC Funeral Rule, Funeral Consumers Alliance, funeral homes, funeral supplies, funerals, Generations Funeral Service, green burial, Josh Slocum, leakage, monopoly, Muehlig Funeral Home, napping in caskets, natural burial, pollution, purge, pyramid schemes, sales, SCI, Secrets, Service Corporation International, STEI, Stewart Enterprises, trocar, vagina, water quality 33 Comments
1,000 seed bombs for Water Street!
As I was walking my dog around Ypsilanti’s 38-acres of depressingly-barren downtown real estate known as Water Street yesterday morning, it occurred to me that it might be fun to pick a day sometime soon and encourage everyone in Ypsilanti to come out and plant sunflower seeds together. And, in a fit of inspiration, I […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged brownfield, commons, flowers, gardening, gorilla gardening, guerilla bio-remediation, Lisa Waud, Michigan Avenue, phytoremediation, Pot and Box, seed, seed bombing, seedbombs, slingshots, sunflowers, teraforming, trebuchets, Water Street, Water Street Redevelopment Project, wildflowers 40 Comments
BP illustrates the need for a corporate death penalty
It’s now coming out that, when Obama was visiting the Louisiana coast a few days ago, surveying the extent of the damage wrought by the BP oil leak, many of the individuals that he, and the rest of us watching at home, thought were BP workers, were in fact temps hired by Tony Haward and […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Corporate Crime, energy Also tagged America Speaking Out, angry Republicans and their ideas, Any Rand, BP, chemical dispersants, child labor, corporate death penalty, Deepwater Horizon, deregulation, dolphins, fish, Lake Michigan, Louisiana, mammals, reptilian humanoids, Republican platform, tea party, Tea Partyfication, Tony Hayward, top kill, Wall Street, whales 25 Comments