Sustainability.  It's been a buzzword in my field for a couple years now.  The academic conferences have, in the last couple years, been dedicating whole sessions to this word.  The research papers have key phrases in the title, like "sustainability:  how to report on corporate social responsibility" or "sustainability and green accounting".   ( Read more... )

This is something I wrote about three years ago, when SCOTUS decided lethal injections was not cruel and unusual punishment, that state endorsed killings could proceed.  Unfortunately, these rambings are topical again, and you may want to move on now if you don't want to be made uncomfortable--chances are what I've written here will hurt you ( Read more... )

 This link from the fabulous darkelf105 .  Evangelicals are saving souls through marketing once again.  Perhaps it works, on the premise that getting butts in the pew actually saves the soul, I guess.  Conversion of heart through fisticuffs, though?  That's a a new one.  Apparently, cage fighting is the next round of marketing bruhaha amongst churn-and-burn ( Read more... )