New Orleans I’m a techno-peasant when it comes to podcasts. I had thought somehow I could get them automatically on an iPod, and that still may be true, but somehow I had almost figured it out several years ago, lost the iPod, and then was somewhere between “don’t remember” and “don’t care” when I was …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Big Bad Corporations Get to Rip and Run on Settlements and Taxes
Little Rock When we read the headlines on the big settlements wrung from corporate baddies for egregious conduct like banks stealing peoples’ homes, plants polluting entire city water systems, or oil companies negligently polluting something as immense as the Gulf of Mexico, we see that they are paying billions and billions of dollars to make …
A Facebook Gift with Ropes Attached
Little Rock You have to give Mark Zuckerberg credit for some things. Without Facebook providing the legitimacy for unparalleled narcissism through the “selfie,” where would the hardcore narcissists be? He also has a flair for publicity and the dramatic, as we are reminded once again. Out in the land of the Lilliputians where most of …