I guess you know that the largest private employer in the world is WalMart. Do you know what number two is? I didn’t either. But as I was looking into the private prison issue I…
Browsing Category Economics
Competition Is Cultural Inbreeding
So, against my better judgement, let’s pretend we can make do with this soul-crushing, resource destroying economy that we call “Capitalism.” It’s just a name that means something like a dogma (which can be considered…
Education and Capital Replication: It’s the Rot that Becomes Us
If you read this pamphleteer, you discover that education is under ideological assault. Not because there are conflicting ideas about what to learn, how to learn, why to learn, etc. (though there are), but because…
So Proud of Our Dirt
I fear we have yet to understand, to wake up to the fact, that every single thing that seems to create contentious debate and divide our citizenry is endemic and intentional. That this disease of…
Against Oligarchical Roundtables In Education (and really, everywhere else too)
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow It’s that simple really. All we do now is ask the wrong questions and…
Stand from betwixt me and the Sun…Thoughts on Enclosure
I’m working on a longer piece intended to be about parallels between eighteenth century land enclosures in England as they became legalized via Parliamentary Acts at the behest of vested private interests and the current…
The Long-Haired Persian Knows It Well: An Errant Snapshot of Greece
Errant contributor Photine Liakos sends us a verbal snapshot of Greece, from Greece, below. While we in the States can know nothing that isn’t punditry promoted by the IMF and the World Bank (unless you’re…
Seriously, Just Pay the Vig…Or Else. Schumer Earning His Keep.
Today the HT prints an AP piece that focuses on a proposal (modest?) by one of our many distrusted politicians, Charles Schumer of NY. We distrust Schumer because he is the Senator who receives the…
Hoarding Cash While Sustaining Joblessness: Corporate Designs on Cheap Labor
Today’s HT (and yesterday’s, and the day before that…) set me off. Look: Unemployment rate up in Monroe County, state Fact check: Recession is culprit in high US debt Recession taking toll on US children…
Unrepresentative–HT Sides with GOP While Our Community Suffers
Opening the Herald Times this morning brought frustrating political and fiscal news as well as a deeply wrong-headed editorial. Where to begin? Local Income Tax Revenue to drop in ’12: well, there’s a shocker though…