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The Medicine Man 0

Pig: Hey, Rat. This is our new neighbor. He's the head of Acme Health. Rat: Oh, you're the company that denied my cousin's claim for treatment. Executive: Well, unfortunately, we have to make a lot of difficult decisions. Medical care is very expensive these days. Believe me, if I could pay every claim, I would, but I'm responsible to shareholders who expect us to make a profit in a very challenging environment. Rat: Is that true? Executive: I'm afraid so. (Rat does a web search on his phone.) Rat: Is that why they pay you thirty million dollars a year? Executive: Please don't Google things. Rat: Your claim is denied. Pig

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April 14, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Health and Sanity, Mammon |

This New Gilded Age 0

Frame One: A group of plutocrats approach Lady Liberty and say,

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April 13, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Political Theatre |

Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Bait for the marks? You bet your sweet bippy.

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April 11, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Geek Stuff, Mammon |

This New Gilded Age 0

Next on the agenda: Bringing back child labor.

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April 9, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Political Theatre |

This New Gilded Age 0

At the Washington Monthly, Richard W. Painter investigates the incestuous relationship between a roll-call of billionaires and the Trump maladministration.

Just go read it for yourself.

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April 7, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Republican Hypocrisy, Too Venal for Words |

Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Bait for the easily bamboozled? Fritz Kessler counsels caution.

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April 1, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Geek Stuff, Mammon |

DOGE Bull 0

Farron reports that the chaos caused by Elon Musk’s DOGE at the National Institutes of Health in endangering persons’ health and lives.

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March 30, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Health and Sanity, Mammon, Republican Hypocrisy |

This New Gilded Age 0

At the Bangor Daily News, Greg Rossel points out the Donald Trump loves the talk about the first Gilded Age, specifically how great a president William McKinley was, and speculates as to why.

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March 28, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Political Theatre |

This New Gilded Age 0

At the Washington Monthly, Diana Moss explains that the trusts–the ones Teddy Roosevelt tried to bust–are back. A snippet:

In the markets where consumers spend most of their budgets, for example, single companies or tight cliques of just a few firms command outsized market shares and so are able to impose anticompetitively high prices, lower quality, and slow down innovation. For example, four or fewer firms have 70 percent market share or more in sectors ranging from warehouse clubs and supercenters to passenger car rental, passenger airline service, kidney dialysis centers, and breakfast cereals. Tight cabals of large food manufacturers control markets ranging from sugar to baby formula.

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March 24, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Political Economy |

The Privatization Scam 0

And it is a scam.

You can voucher on it.

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March 24, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Culture Warriors, Mammon, Political Theatre |

This New Gilded Age 0

This dude has clearly never worried about where his next meal was coming from.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

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March 24, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Republican Lies |

The Privatization Scam 0

At the Portland Press-Herald, Ann Arsenault Shultz debunks de bunk.

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March 21, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Political Economy |

Transfer of Wealth, Republican Style 0

Michael in Norfolk deconstructs the double-talk.

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March 19, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Political Economy, Republican Lies |

All That Was Old Is New Again 0

Thom argues that Donald Trump is bringing back the spoils system. (And, yes, it was Garfield.)

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March 9, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Political Theatre, Republican Hypocrisy |

The Crypto Con 0

C&L reminds us that cypto is the laundry soap for money-laundering and that Donald Trump is heading for the laundromat.

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March 9, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Republican Hypocrisy |

This New Gilded Age 0

Title: Near-Future History Lesson. Image: Family sitting in cave. Woman is roasting a rodent over an open fire while two kids and husband sit dejectedly by. Woman says to kids,

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March 5, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon |

This New Gilded Age 0

Apparently, I am not alone in realizing that the 1890s are back.

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March 4, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Republican Hypocrisy |

Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0

. . . and get a complimentary bag of fiendliness.

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March 1, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Too Venal for Words |

“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Michael in Norfolk perceives a rhyme in the news. A snippet:

If one studies how Hitler and the Nazi regime came to control news outlets and shut down independent media outlets, in addition to threats and intimidation, newspapers and journals had their office attacked and ransacked as a means of silencing them. Now, as we see America sliding towards oligarchy or even dictatorship, similar threats are being made . . . .

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*Mark Twain.

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February 28, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Political Theatre |

This New Gilded Age 0

Robert Reich fears that the existence of independent regulatory agencies may be in the crosshairs of today’s Robber Barons, aided and abetted by the Trump (mal)administration and the Supreme Supremacist Court.

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February 27, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Republican Hypocrisy |
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