I have not been one to bitch about every change companies attempt in their whimsical attempt to maximize shareholder value. Ah, but there are limits.

I've been sending them subscription money for years. Nine years in fact. In that time, I've enjoyed the service, especially the streaming ( Read more... )

By now, everyone has heard about what is happening seemingly all at once in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. Republican governors are trying to ram "emergency" legislation through their senates and houses that would strip the most robust union demographic, public employees, of their collective bargaining rights ( Read more... )

Unhappily for us all, we are surrounded by corporate accomplices willing to influence our hearts and minds. I gave you a taste of this in Part II. In at least three of the four examples I provided we find a strong fiduciary incentive to warrant the noted shenanigans, obvious reasons why the participants would go to such misinformation extremes. ( Read more... )

In Part I of this series, I noted that our stories, the conversations we have with ourselves and use to frame the world around us in a fashion we can understand, are being hijacked. Yes, I said "hijacked," as in forced to go where they would not otherwise go. While this should be no surprise to any longer term readers out there, allow me to ( Read more... )

I got a lesson in life last night. Weirdly, I got it from playing with the Nintendo Wii ( Read more... )

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This can't be emphasized enough. To quote Rachel:

Americans are showing up at these events to shout down the discussion and to chase their congressmen. And they are enraged. And they're enraged, at least in part, by over-the-top conspiracy theories about health care. And they're being orchestrated by the corporate interests that do this for ( Read more... )

I just can't let this teevee thing go, it seems. I'll try to make this my latest last speculative rant on the subject, at least for a while.

To catch you new readers up on the drama, I almost suffered a kidney refill without respite from a television. That got me to correlate that near-trauma with an email a friend sent a fast food joint, which ( Read more... )

I'm sorry, but I'm still on this telly, telly, everywhere tear. It's something that is pretty much turning into an obsession ( Read more... )

A friend of mine did something noteworthy the other day, and forwarded me a copy. He wrote his local eatery with a complaint:

Why does the Bothell, Washington Qdoba have Fox news on the only TV? I would think that offends more people than it pleases. The food is good, but I can't eat in a place with that contemptuous and contemptible garbage on.
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