Category: The Branding Age
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Slavery Sucks. All Forms Of Slavery, That Is — Including The “Subtle” Ones…
Slavery has been a thing homo sapiens do (we don’t know if any other human species did it) since we figured out we could force someone else to work for free. Slavery, in its essence, is stolen labor. Yes, it’s a stolen life. But, from the point of view of the enslaver, the goal is…
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Something About This Kinda Shouts ‘Bullshit!’
My local 99 Cents Only Store was doing some product testing for the still nascent republican health care plan. It’s kinda ‘pay-as-you-go’. You pay, get nothing – that’s how it goes. I wonder what the deductible will be…
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What WASPS Look Like
I grew up in a bubble. It’s true. Pikesville, MD (just outside northwest Baltimore) was so predominantly Jewish that clever (non-Jewish) people called it ‘Kikesville’. Get it? My public high schools — Pikesville Junior High & Pikesville Senior High — were so predominantly Jewish that even the non-Jewish kids took the Jewish holidays off because…
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Dr Ooga Booga Presents…
For my Republican Friends — All the Magical Thinking with none of the struggle. You’re welcome…
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Will Our Age Ultimately Be Known As ‘THE BRANDED AGE’?
Americans are not generally known for their knowledge of history (or geography). We have other strengths. But, when we DO have history (and remember it), we tend to be ‘colorful’ about it. There’s a ‘pretty famous’ (if by ‘famous’ we mean Historians call it that) time period in American History called The Gilded Age. It…