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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

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Upset about those million pages on the Epstein Affair?

Worried that the volume (and DOJ redactions) make it impossibly burdensome for Congress’s investigative units to get through them, let alone find the smoking guns? Instead of worrying, watch Dark Waters, a brilliant legal thriller from 2019, starring Mark Ruffalo … Continue reading

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If you love real life thrillers, here are a trio

The past couple of days I’ve spent some time trying to figure out how I can toss two non-stick frying pans without doing permanent damage to our environment. From what I’ve been seeing, it’ll take a special recycling organization with … Continue reading

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