2025 archive
Republican Family Values 0
Michael in Norfolk reports that his mind is numb.
This New Gilded Age 0
Robert Reich explains the five ways to become a billionaire. They may not be what you (or Horatio Alger) might expect.
- First, exploit a monopoly.
- A second way to make more than a billion is to get insider information that’s unavailable to other investors.
- A third way to make more than a billion is to buy off politicians who will change the rules of the “free market” in your favor.
- The fourth way to make more than a billion is to extort big investors.
- The fifth way to make more than a billion is to get the money from rich parents or relatives.
Follow the link for a detailed discussion of each one.
American Stasi 0
From the Youtube page:
While anyone even suspected of being an undocumented immigrant is facing the threat of violence from Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s ICE agents at any moment, U.S. citizens, as predicted, are also getting caught up in the lawlessness these thugs are operating with and are becoming victims of the same brutality as their fellow community members. Rick Strom breaks it down.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Self-politeness is the politest kind.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
The National Security Fraudster 0
At Above the Law, Mark Hermann debunks de bunk.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Our new robotic overlords? Security maven Bruce Scneier points out that
Follow the link for his exploration of the implications of the infiltration.
American Stasi 0
Jerrod Zisser discusses ICE’s detention of a native-born American citizen who was arrested and sent to a concentration camp–that’s the only word for it–for being brown and speaking Spanish.
A Picture Is Worth 0
An artist finds himself taken aback by the kitsch.
While we’re on the subject, Jack Ohman thinks the kitsch sends a message.
The Rule of Lawless 0
In a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, Ron Mitchell argues that today’s Supreme Supremacist Court is a courting disaster.
This New Gilded Age, All the News that Fits Dept. 0
Amy Goodman points out that oligarchy can lead, not just to monopolies dominating and thereby controlling markers, but to their dominating and thereby controlling information.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme that sends ICEy SShivers down his back.
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*Mark Twain.
How Stuff Works: Prevarication Proliferation 0
David explores techniques for planting lies and watching them grow.