Mammon category archive
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Jim Hightower hears some rhymes with history in this new gilded age. Here’s a couple:
Follow the link for the context of his remarks.
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*Mark Twain.
This New Gilded Age 0
The bosses get the doughnuts, the employees get the holes.
Contaminated Clorox 0
That’s a phrase one would not expect to hear, but, in line with what Farron was talking about, it appears that contaminated Clorox is indeed a thing.
Grocery 0
Farron marvels at the number of food recalls that we’re facing today and wonders whether Repuvlicans’ thirst for deregulation may be the reason.
Methinks he has a point.
Impartiality
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At Above the Law, Joe Patrice follows the trail of oil droplets.
The Entitlement Society 0
His biggest regret is that he got caught.
Kleptocracy 0
Grung_e_Gene raises an interesting point: The Trump maladministration is interested, not in the public good, but only in the public’s goods
The Crypto Con 0
Thom follows Donald Trump’s funny phoney money.
This New Gilded Age 0
Methinks one sign that we are in a New Gilded Age is government’s privatizing the common weal so as to line the pockets of the already wealthy.
Devolution 0
Sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro in my local rag:
This New Gilded Age 0
In case you wonder why the first Gilded Age gave rise to the union movement, this example from our New Gilded Age might help dispel said wonder.
All the News You Can Lose 0
When persons have to turn to “social” media for news because their “local” news outlets aren’t outing their local news, we are well and truly–well, let’s just say that’s not a positive indicator in dis coarse discourse.
The Greenland New Deal 0
Farron argues that it’s all about theft of resources. Methinks he has a point.
We are (mis)governed by a kleptocrat.
This New Gilded Age 0
At the Las Vega Sun, letter-writer Mark Bird follows the money and reaches a depressing conclusion.
The Laundromat 0
Thom and Heidi Siegmund Cuda follow the money.
The Snaring Economy 0
Apparently, price-gouging is the hip new thing.
There’s are reasons for regulations, and this is one of them.
The Spoiled of War 0
Rex Huppke channels an oil executive’s thoughts about Donald Trump’s war of choice with Iran in this New Gilded Age.
A snippet: