Corporate Ethics

As an addendum to my post yesterday, I just found this link on reddit.
Long story short, we had a drought in North Carolina this past year, with about a zillion daily reminders that if you didn’t recycle your bath water, children in Raleigh would be facedown or belly up in the streets, gasping their last [...]

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Consumer Ethics

I was buying underwear (pics on request, natch) at Jockey and noticed that the price I was being charged was below what I had expected to pay. By expected, I mean used mental math to calculate (as a means of assuring myself that a liberal arts education hasn’t yet made me entirely impractical) pretty exactly. [...]

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Conspicuous Consumption

A woman who lives at the end of my street in Salem drove past me yesterday in a 350Z convertible with custom license plates reading “(Surname)_1″. This vehicle is her only car. Congratulations, capitalism. I can’t think of a stronger argument for retroactive abortion. Besides the absurdity that is numbering when only [...]

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Veterans of Wars on Foreigners

I’m getting a sign for this weekend that says “Memorial Day – in remembrance of all the brown people who had to die so you can drive a Hummer.”
I’m becoming a little bit fed up with all this memorial day hype. I was reading through the local county newspaper (the words ‘county newspaper’ alone [...]

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