Corporations

Many Americans mistakenly connect being wealthy with being smart but George W. Bush and now Mitt Romney have proven that conventional thinking to be as dead as the dodo...which coincidentally has become the new mascot of the GOP.

Perhaps the only science Murdoch truly believes in is the calculation of tv ratings and advertising rates.

When I walked into the examination room Fox News was waiting in, it was facing the smallest corner of the room with a distant, angry look in its eyes while chanting "Benghazi!".

Ted Cruz has as much of a chance at winning the Presidency as Liberty University's founder Jerry Falwell does in having a snowball fight where he currently is but anyone who knows anything about Republicans knows that to them, reality is just a liberal/socialist/anti-colonial plot.

When you thought of starting this business, what did you imagine your life would be like? What did you dream of having? Do you have the family or fun time you thought you’d have by this time? Are you any closer to fulfilling your dreams than when you started?

The warming we've seen is setting feedback loops that guarantee higher levels of warming. The melting of the Siberian permafrost means thousands of gigatons of methane (more damaging as greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide) released into the atmosphere.

Greed seems to rule when it comes to coal, oil, fracking, and the nuclear industries. Renewable energy sources are available and if the big corporations would put some of their obscene profits into solar, electric cars, wind, and geothermal energy we could start to reverse some of the harm done.

Then, I got curious. How the hell does anyone take advantage of someone who is, at least, intelligent enough to accumulate investment capital? What does it take to convince a "savvy" person to get sucked into a scam? Apparently, not a lot.

Everything is underway with this Sunday's protest against the Koch cabal in Palm Springs. The media is building as are the images, here are just some of them.

During and right after the mortgage crisis some were talking about the commercial crash and how that would soon hit.  At the time I thought,...