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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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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
Posted in Capitalism, climate change, Consumer boycott, Crime & Punishment, DOJ, Government, Journalism, Law, suits and order, Lawyers, News media, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Congress, Dark Waters, discovery documents, DuPont, Elon Musk, Environmental Protection Agency, Epstein, Mark Ruffalo, PFOA, Robert Bilott, Teflon, timelines, Trump, Trump's Department of Justice
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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
Posted in climate change, Corruption, Law, suits and order, Lawyers, The Facts of Life
Tagged "Official Secrets, Cape Fear River, Chemour, Colin Powell, Dark Waters, David Gelles, DuPont Chemicals, Emily Steel, FPOA, GenX, Nathaniel Rich, New York Times, non-stick pans, Ohio River, Rob Bilott, Teflon, West Virginia
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