My favorite team lost the Super Bowl last season. Plaxico Burress hauled in the game winning pass for the Giants, doused the flames of New England’s flawless season, and I felt nothing. It sucked for maybe ten seconds. Then I remembered wars were being fought, U.S. soldiers killing and dying in battles sponsored by our [...]
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Preseason Whatever
Posted in Bill Belichik, citizenship, Junior Seau, New England Patriots, New York Giants, Plaxico Burress, Politics, Randy Moss, spectatorship, sports, Tom Brady, tagged citizenship, football, New England Patriots, New York Giants, NFL, Politics, spectatorship, sports on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For the Fairness Doctrine, in Academia Too
Posted in Bill O'Reilly, Charlie Wilson, Fox News, tagged ===Books===, academia, education, Fairness Doctrine, Fox News, media, Politics, radio, tv on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s increasingly hard to find objective info these days. Everyone wants to spoon-feed you their own agenda, some unreal version of reality. Too often propaganda adorns itself in the deceptive garb of neutrality and sincerity. Like the lies it sells us, propaganda is an optical illusion, a beautiful lie. If you think I devote a [...]
The McDonaldization of Citizenship
Posted in Al Gore, Andrew Weil, Anheuser-Busch, Capitalism, Commercialism, D.A.R.E., drugs, George Ritzer, globalization, Little Debbie, media, spectatorship, support our troops, The McDonaldization of Society, War on Drugs, tagged advertising, alcohol, Capitalism, Commercialism, D.A.R.E., drug legalization, drugs, globalization, lobbyists, McDonaldization, Ritzer, spectatorship, support our troops, tobacco on July 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
(Previously posted at Jonestown) George Ritzer’s The McDonaldization of Society brings to light an alarming trend in our country. The new United States is a land of generic shortcuts, where efficiency and knowable responses have displaced the authenticity that once made the American dream seem possible. We want to live convenient and predictable lives, like [...]
Budweiser: Now a “Foreign” Beer
Posted in Belgium, Brazil, Business, Capitalism, Claire McCaskill, InBev, Missouri, United States, tagged Business, Capitalism, economics, Money, USA on July 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Although Budweiser may still be brewed in Missouri, profits will go to Belgium and Brazil. So much for the King of Beers.
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