Mammon category archive
The Privatization Scam, Chartering a Course for Disaster Dept. 0
At the Orlando Sentinel, Scott Maxwell explores a race for a seat on the Orange County, Florida, school board that you couldn’t make up.
You gotta read this one for yourself. Words are still failing me.
Taken to the Cleaners, Reprise 0
Scott Martelle follows the money.
Taken to the Cleaners 0
David follows the money (Warning: 20 second ad at the beginning).
“Smart” Homes, Dumb Home Owners 0
I wouldn’t have one of those “smart speakers” in my home on a bet.
If Big Data wants to spy on me, they can do it the old fashioned way and peer through my windows, but I will damned if I voluntarily invite their monitoring devices into my house. Heck, it’s difficult enough to fend them off in my web browser.
(I learned of this news story because I listen to Le Show and you should to.)
Car. Thief. 0
Why does this not surprise me?
The Medicine Show 0
I don’t know about you, but this story truly gave me heartburn.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Right here, right now, it’s the heat.
And the heat is a sympton of climate change.
Tripping on the Guilting 0
Bill Nemitz reports on what happened when, on a lark, he signed up for the “Team Trump” mailing list. It was not quite what he expected. A snippet:
What I expected was a window into the messaging being deployed by the Trumps to propel the president to a second term – increasingly unlikely as that appears to be. What I got was a guilt trip, day after day, for not doing as I’m told.
Facebook Frolics, No Russian to Judgement Here Dept. 0
The image above accompanies an article at The Roanoke Times in which Rupert Cutler, long-time public servant, warns us that Russia is cranking up its bot nets to do it again.
Everybody Must Get Fracked 0
Will Bunch mulls over a belated (and likely empty) gesture.