Making the World Safe for Democracy (redux)

Yeah, we got rid of Saddam Hussein. Don't the Iraquis just LOVE us now:



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A Girl After My Own Heart

I think my jailbird pal Kyle sent me this. It's from Portland and is certainly a girl after my own... well most any bodily organ:

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Spying on the Employees

Ya gotta love technology: A new software program lets employers spy on their employees minute-by-minute. Wanna check weather.com to see what to wear to work tomorrow? You're gonna pay!! $9 a month? It's a small price to pay to know... everything! Oh yeah, the spyware is called DESKTIME, and it's probably recording you RIGHT NOW!

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Tough choice for Americans Dept

So, being an American or mud-wrestling with an alligator in the Louisiana swamps. Which makes you feel dirtier?

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What comes around...

Ah the lower East Side of NYC. Now a fashionable district for Japanese NYU students. Before that, punkrock heaven. Before that, hippy heaven. Before that, Puerto Rican slums. Before that, Jewish and other Eastern European slums... where new immigrants came to work their way out of the slums. Often they joined unions to help each other pull themselves out of the LES muck. They lived in tenements... in squalid conditions.

So, someone decides to make a tenement museum. A testimony to these hard-working, usually radical labor organizers and members. And what happens? Of course, it's capitalism!



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Drug your kids, get some money

Does your child have bad moods? Poor school performance? Difficulty focusing? Even if s/he doesn't, could you use some extra cash? "Compensation for time and travel." Let us drug your kid and we'll pay you!!!

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How tempting for the poor... and why not? The poor will be the guinea pigs for the rich. New drugs? Test 'em on welfare kids! Put those lazy bums to work!

Better not abandon that SHOPPING CART

So, you click on something you want to order. Only 99¢, you get to the checkout and 78.89 for SHIPPING . No thanks. But what if the website ALREADY has your bank account number and the "routing" number for your checks? THEY can write themselves in from here to Silicone Valley.

"Digital Cash?" aka Dwolla? You have been warned!