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Last week, an upstart, unknown, non-publicly traded corporation decided to forego all of that pulling-congressional-strings-behind-closed-doors business and take the reins themselves. And so, Murray Hill Incorporated has filed to run as a Rebublican candidate in Maryland’s eigth Congressional District.
I, for one, would like to welcome our new Corporate Overlords and offer them any help my flawed human faculties can offer.
Today is the third anniversary of the events of 1-31. Given this country’s continuing reactions to awkward underwear incendiaries, and enthusiasm for perpetual war, I think it’s as relevant as ever.
Big Fat Whale has created a terrific portrayal of the absurdity of corporate personhood.
Here’s a little ditty that perfectly encapsulates this last week — whether one is referencing the markets, the economy at large, the craptastic weather, the Activist Supreme Court trying to bring about the Corpapocalypse, or the tragic conclusion to the football career of Brett Fav-Re. Good times.
Here’s the President’s reaction to last week’s heinous Supreme Court decision that removed restrictions on corporate contributions to political campaigns. While, politically, this moves us yet closer to the future of Demolition Man or Jennifer Government, I’m more interested in this piece’s subtext…
Why go hyperbolic when you can go ultra-super-galacticbolic?
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From the creator of Mep favorite, Auto-Tuning the News, comes this Martin Luther King Jr. ballad from beyond the grave.
The 24-year-old 2009 winner of “Ukraine’s Got Talent,” Kseniya Simonava, drew a series of pictures in sand, illuminating how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during the World War II. Check out the orchestral version of Nothing Else Matters by Metallica at the end.
Harry Reid: Give Me One Reason to Stay Here
I honestly don’t understand where the lines are in discussions of race in this country.
This morning, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and respected rationalist, Chris Hedges, levied a brutal assault against the corporate citizen’s moral code (or frightening lack thereof) that seems set on consuming every decent and egalitarian institution this country has left.
