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I’ve been covering Occupy Wall Street for weeks now, and many people have been asking my opinion of it, so here it is: it’s great! And stupid! All at once. It’s great because we need an authentic movement to drive new awakenings in our deadened consumerist culture. Good music, real art, new ways of approaching ...
Yeah, so this is pretty tasteless. AND THAT’S THE POINT. All these freaking pictures of Gaddafi dead that I’ve been exposed to unexpectedly. I didn’t WANT to see it, but thanks to a disgusting media, I saw more than my share. Headlines screaming, “Gaddafi On Display”…well, I couldn’t HELP but think of lovely Melissa Gorga’s ...
I’ve encountered corporations a lot this week, in a lot of different ways. Like all of us. Because there is no getting away from them. Ever. As I was walking around Times Square recently, I just found it overbearing. I felt like all the logos and mascots and music and corporate branding coming at me ...
People get more conservative with age. A lot of conservatives attribute that to people wanting to get back to basic morals, but I attribute it to people getting plain old sick and tired. People tend to think the world is constantly getting more difficult and corrupt, that their childhood was a golden era for humanity, ...
I know I generally cover great stories of great import, but this week I am going back to my roots of ranting on trivial matters. Because, sometimes trivial matters are important in that they can have great, negative effects on our society! So this week I am talking about one thing that a LOT of ...
From Moody’s: “Unless students limit their debt burdens, choose fields of study that are in demand, and successfully complete their degrees on time, they will find themselves in worse financial positions and unable to earn the projected income that justified taking out their loans in the first place.” All these students with all these loans ...
It’s the middle of summer, and all the mainstream media’s stupidity is harder to tolerate. So this week, I’m digging through my summer reading for a new topic, one that might be more thoughtful and inspiring than anything else going on in the dumb dumb news right now. So this week, let’s talk about this.
This stupid debt ceiling debate is a perfect example of how polarized and off-topic our political conversations have become in the US. Cut spending, institute a flat tax and raise the damn debt ceiling. Done. That’s it. Get back to work, you rich, idiotic, soulless congressmen.
President Obama ran on the platform of ending the Bush-era tax cuts, saying he intended on raising taxes on the top 2% of income earners in the US. He still has not done this, mainly because of a very vocal opposition. But since only 2% of us would be affected, why do so many of ...
Oh, people. Can you please shut the ef up about Google Plus, and Facebook’s valuation, and the latest celebu-idiot/corporate shilling tweet? I mean, didn’t we just learn a big lesson about the over-hype of websites from the MySpace fire sale? Ugh. Apparently not.
