We are the United States of Shallow Americans. We obsess over the nuance in a phrase or a word and are distracted by the...
Welcome to Tampa Liberty School, a Glenn Beck–inspired summer camp that teaches 8-year-olds how to fight The Man
At the Tampa Liberty School camp kids...
The British have a great phrase for expressing the fact that someone is undergoing a particularly angering derangement syndrome. They simply say that someone...
There is a great deal of consternation regarding the fact that a Senate Committee just passed the ‘Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act’.
If signed...
Dr. "Jack," Kevorkian passed away on 6/3/11. Last Friday, to be exact
He has been hailed as a champion by the right to die movement...
I believe that socialism is the only system that we may subjugate ourselves to and still be able to call ourselves human and that society will slowly evolve into socialism, followed by the C-word, which I still have an unnatural reflex to.
As my exams draw closer and closer, I find myself staring closer and closer at the contents of the various textbooks that lay strewn...
Every weekend, free samples of the American consumer society are offered at your local Costco...along with five layer dip and gummy vitamins.
Now, six years later, he's back and running again for the GOP nomination. It reveals a sad state of Republican affairs in the Commonwealth when Allen's opponents for the Republican nod are a Tea Partier and a State politician who advocates Virginia minting its own currency and who manages to make Pat Buchanan look like a Progressive. In the world of the Republican blind, the one-eyed George Allen is king, at least in Virginia.
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.