Jack Burns Lives!

Last night I watched an interesting but highly disturbing interview on Bill Moyers Journal about the economy that featured James K. Galbraith, son of famous economist John Kenneth Galbraith. He’s the Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in government and business relations and professor of economics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of [...]

“Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.”-Edward Abbey
I appreciate fellow Abbey aficionado Kris for bringing this one to my attention. Looks like most of our Congress Critters and our [...]

If this doesn’t suffice for a Halloween scare, I don’t know what will. Yeah, the Monsanto news isn’t new. We’ve known for a long time they’ve been bullying farmers and using their genetic engineering to build an evil monopoly over food production. But it never hurts to have a reminder….
If I was a farmer, I [...]

Jack sits motionless at his cubicle staring at his computer screen. 112 messages in his inbox and a stack of files to his right, 15 or so deep, all waiting. Waiting for him to take action, but he can’t move.
He hates it. The computer, the job, his clothes, his life, his inability to act. [...]