Mammon category archive
Hitting the Fan 0
Honest to Betsy (Pete’s off on assignment), you can’t make this stuff up.
It Is To Gag 0
The premise behind Ag-Gag bills is this: If no one talks about it, it didn’t happen.
It’s like the approach to teen-aged pregnancy back in the olden days when I was a young ‘un. “Nice” teen-aged girls didn’t ever get pregnant–they just disappeared from the school never to be spoken of again.
It’s the Food Lion whistleblower case all over again once more redundantly.
Just Because You Can Do Something Online . . . 0
Doesn’t mean you should.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
Honest to Pete, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
Scam Alert 0
Beware the E. Z. Pass scam.
In related news, we’ve gotten at least three of the IRS scam phone calls in the past week.
In the case of these two scams, at least, the guiding principle is, “If it doesn’t come by U. S. Mail, don’t pay it no nevermind.”
The Privileged of American Citizenship 0
As Will Bunch explains, the “privilege of citizenship” does not mean what you may think it means. A snippet:
Rand Gestures 0
The consensus–hell, it’s more than a consensus, it’s a unity–is that Rand Paul hasn’t a hope of the Republican nomination, let alone the Presidency. Why is he running?
I suggest that it’s all about the merch.
Facebook Frolics 0
Nobody believes in your cause? Advertize for protestors on Facebook!
Pretzel Logic and Free Speech 0
In The American Scholar, Lincoln Kaplan makes the case that the current Supreme Court’s interpretation of “freedom of speech” is inimical to freedom. Here’s a bit; read the rest.