Category: Asides

It smacks of conspiracy, but this fascinating interview with J.T. Gatto quite thoroughly and scarily addresses many of the questions I’ve had about why our schools and our society seem broken at such a fundamental level.

This is just disgusting.

Don’t think we’ve descended into a plutocracy? Check out this scary video about Monsanto’s promotion of Bovine Growth Hormone, how easily it cleared the FDA, how Canada shot it down, how Fox News reporters put together a story on theContinue reading… Plutocracy in Action

Good to see that Utah has no concerns about the separation of church and state. Makes you wonder again about Romney doesn’t it?

Whenever you hear people complaining about how rich people pay the lions share of taxes, it’s important to check out how much they make relative to the rest of the population, and how much more unequal things have become inContinue reading… Income Inequality

So just how dangerous is police work? Generally, police are about three times as likely to be killed on the job as the average American. It isn’t among the top ten most dangerous professions, falling well behind logging, fishing, drivingContinue reading… A dangerous job?

You’ve turned our son into an atheist.