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February 2006
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atlanta, marta, public-transportation, strategic-planning
MARTA to reassess everything
02.20.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on MARTA to reassess everythingBut will that lead to a much needed complete overhaul? We’ll find out once the study is done a couple of years from now.
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ikea-atlanta-shopping
How to shop at Ikea on a busy weekend
02.20.06 | Permalink | 5 CommentsI only assume the best of my fellow human beings. Therefore, I can only assume that my fellow Ikea shoppers (some several dozen thousand of them) this weekend were all following the posted Ikea shopping rules that I’d somehow failed to notice on the way in. Judging from their behavior, those rules are: 1. If […]
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america, consumerism, empire, freeocracy, global-corporate-feudalism, wealth-bondage
A voice crying in the wilderness
02.19.06 | Permalink | 17 CommentsJoe Bageant, hands down, writes the best description of life under our global corporate feudalism, empire, wealth bondage, what have you, that I’ve yet to read—“Welcome to Middle-Class Lockdown.” I am inspired, and disturbed. This is required reading. Go read it. And then read it again. And then print it out and give it to […]
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benefits, healthcare, living-wage, medicare, retirement, social-security, walmart
Paid your Wal-Mart tax yet?
02.18.06 | Permalink | 7 CommentsSteve Greenhouse and Michael Barbaro report: In a confidential, internal Web site for Wal-Mart’s managers, the company’s chief executive, H. Lee Scott Jr., seemed to have a rare, unscripted moment when one manager asked him why “the largest company on the planet cannot offer some type of medical retirement benefits?” Mr. Scott first argues that […]
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academia, bullshit, sean-hannity
Academic indoctrination, explained
Michael Berube explains it for Sean Hannity: “As you know, Sean, in America, students are assigned to their universities by the Federal Education and Re-education Committee… Once they get into my course (required for graduation), Advanced America-Blaming and Applied Appeasement of Terrorists, they are graded primarily on attendance and recitation. They are also required to […]
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cartoons, new-yorker
Christ. What an asshole
02.18.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Christ. What an assholeCharles’s Second Law states that the phrase “Christ, what an asshole” is the answer to nearly every New Yorker Magazine Caption Contest. And at least as funny, I’d add.
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