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A specific instance of egregious corporate sociopathy in one word: PLASTICS!
Plastics. I don’t remember the character who imparted this career advice — “Plastics” — to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. Someone did, though, and here we are, nearly 60 years later, facing the consequences. “Nearly 60 years later”? A speck in … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, climate change, Consumer boycott, Journalism, Law, suits and order, Lawyers, Science, Technology, The Facts of Life
Tagged "A Civil Action", "The Graduate", "The Island at the Center of the World", Achilles Hell, Amazon, Dark Waters, dolphins and plastic, Dustin Hoffman, Fairway, Morton Williams, Mother Nature, plastics, ShopRite, The Campbell Company, uranium shelf life, V8 juice
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It’s so wearying, isn’t it?
Each morning as I wake up, I wonder how close we have gotten to the finality of this slow-motion collapse — not of our civilization but of the small, uncivilized cluster of lunatics who have gnawed their way into our … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Corruption, Culture, Government, MAGA, News media, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting and voting rights
Tagged Mordor, Reconstruction, Trump, Trump administration, Trump cabal
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How to do diplomacy in the face of war
Like you, I read about (or maybe just skim over) Trump’s egregiously wacky jabs at convincing everyone he knows what he’s doing. One of the many things he knows nothing about is diplomacy, which demands a grasp of reality he … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Culture, Government, Immigration, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, War
Tagged "Taking Manhattan", "The Island at the Center of the World", Hudson Bay, Iran war, Manhattan Island, New Amsterdam, New England, Peter Stuyvesant, Richard Nicolls, Russell Shorto, Trump
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