Mammon category archive
Stray Thought 0
“Yes, but will it hold up in court?” is no longer a valid rhetorical question.
We have seen that, with the application of enough juice for a long enough time to the correct vulnerable points, anything, regardless of legality or morality, will hold up in court.
How Stuff Works: Trickle On Economics 0
Aside:
Methinks the fundamental principle of Reaganomics, which still afflicts the polity was, “From each according to his ability to boss man according to his greed.”
Freedom of Screech in This New Gilded Age 0
Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk threatens to take advertisers to court so as to force them to place their advertising speech on Twitter X, because he is absolutely in favor of freedom of speech, or something.
Yeah, I know, it sounds absolutely insane. Follow the link and decide for yourself.
Alphabet Slop 0
As I zipped through drug commercials on the DVR–and there are sure lots of them since advertising prescription drugs to the public was allowed–I theorized that drug companies made up drug names by pouring letters into two big bins like the ones used for lottery numbers–one bin for vowels and one for consonants–then pulled out letters at random from each.
Now comes Roger Kreuz, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, to explain that there is indeed a system to the synthesis of multi-syllabic pharmaceutical gibberish. For example:
Follow the link for an insight to the psychology of branding.
Market Farces 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Douglas Van Praet explores how marketeers manipulate persons into paying why some folks are willing to pay $25,000 for a hoodie.
“License To Loot” 0
Mike and Farron run the numbers and conclude that greedflation is indeed a thing.
Courting Disaster 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice excoriates the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Chevron doctrine. A snippet:
No Surprises Here 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier considers tonight’s debate between Biden and Trump and wonders
Put another way, the same question goes, debate what?
Methinks he has a point.
Follow the link for the rest of his thoughts.
The Privatization Scam 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini finds himself disgusted, but not surprised, at the money grab.
Devolution 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Darryl Cornelius describes a descent.
This New Gilded Age 0
The Des Moines Register takes issue with Iowa’s recent attempts to bring back child labor. Here’s the beginning of the editiorial:
1. The exploited children.
2. The owners and managers who scheduled the exploited children.If you picked 2, congratulations! You’ve mastered the increasingly popular art of transforming guilt into grievance.
Follow the link to learn who’s truy the victims here.
The Crypto Con 0
Writing at the Washington Monthly, Graham Steele, expresses concern that Congress might fall for the Crypto Con. He notes that
Follow the link to find out why he thinks this bill is a not very good really really bad exceedingly stupid idea.
Aside:
If you want to learn more about the Crypto Con, check out Harry Shearer’s Le Show, where he has a regular feature on the “Crypto Winter.” (Click on an episode and you can see what topics are covered in that episode and what time they appear.)
This New Gilded Age, Reprise 0
Paul Krugman offers a theory as to why many of the rich seem to be support Donald Trump, despite his obvious incompetence;
Wealthy Americans, though, are surely betting they’ll pay lower taxes if Trump wins.
Follow the link for his reasoning.