Rate-your-politician

I propose a new way to look at politics. It would be “rate-your-politician”. This would involve a web site and everyone gets to create an account there – there should be a way to verify accounts but I suppose this would work as an app on Facebook. Next everyone defines (a) an elected politician and […]

Fuck the Poor

The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook 10 Most Obscene Lifestyles Choices of America’s 1% Elite Complaining about having to do their own dishes, or bragging about $800,000 car garages, the 1 percenters are all but screaming “let them eat cake” from the ramparts. As the […]

A New Role for the One Percent

(source) A whole lot of us are stuck with credit-card debt that goes up each month, mortgages worth more than our homes and student loans that extend into infinity. So it’s only natural that we look at the debt crisis from the bottom up: from the perspective of the 99% who are getting screwed. But […]

Societal auto-immune disease

We live in a world which is new. The 20th century was unlike any century before that, and we saw fundamentally new things in this era. World war, mass genocide, nuclear weapons, manned flight, automated factories, mass transport, people in the moon, internet. And that’s just the more cinematic stuff. Every aspect of reality has […]

Where do the global elites to lead us?

We have a choice between two extremes; this planet can no longer cultivate the same levels of universal consumption. Now ask yourself – right now who has most effect on deciding where we are headed? You? Or the global hyper-rich? It’s time to wake up and speak up. Scenario One Scenario Two Updates * http://rortybomb.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/saez_chart.png […]

The Final Disillusion

Looking at the last ten thousand years the only conclusion is – how many people died because of tyranny and oppression? Of the unnatural deaths possibly more than half were directly or indirectly attributable to force or oppression by other humans. Can we conclude that this selection bottleneck had a distinctive effect on human genetics? […]