Rush’s decision to license “Working Man” to a company that has declared war on American workers is one of the biggest betrayals of trust in Rock history. Yesterday I offered up a […]
Walmart “Working Man” ad: Rush sold out their fans. Big time. #WTF
New Walmart “Working Man” ad: what’s wrong with this picture?
Walmart advertising execs need a lesson in geography. And maybe irony. Have you seen the new Walmart commercial? Pay attention at around the 50 second mark.
Affluenza: Black Friday is America’s new high holy day
Originally published on 11/23/2012. And it’s getting worse. Black Friday is under way – has been since midnight, in fact. In many places around the country, retailers started kicking off the festivities at […]
Politico misquote of Perriello: sorry, but an apology just isn't enough
On September 22, Politico ran an article by Glenn Thrush that egregiously misrepresented the words of Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA). The subject was town hall meetings and racist comments that he had […]
Does the Wilderness need a Walmart?
Despite the image its name implies, the Wilderness is none too wild these days. Bordering the southern bank of central Virginia’s Rapidan River, the Wilderness was a seventy-square-mile tangle of dense second-growth […]
The Weekly Carboholic: So much for the "1970s cooling consensus" myth
70’s “cooling consensus” never existed Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf to be studied Efficiency created 1.46 million California jobs Memo: CO2, wildlife conflicts of interest OK Rolls-Royce developing efficient new propeller engines […]
Wal*Mart goes "moo"
I despise Wal*Mart. They’re vehemently anti-union in a company that desperately needs to be unionized (and this from a guy who generally isn’t a fan of unions himself). The quality of nearly […]
Google and MIT tackle global heating
What do you do when your government does nothing to incentivize clean energy and is attached at the hip to coal and oil companies? You go your own way and start developing […]
FTC suit against Whole Foods/Wild Oats merger is like a bad pro wrestling angle
Good to see the Feds finally cracking some greedhead skulls by sacking up and opposing an anti-consumer megamerger. Ummm, wait a sec… FTC wants to stop Wild Oats/Whole Foods deal New Mexico […]
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