Economics for Dummies
The History of Oil
Ever see a stand-up comedy routine about oil wars and oil coups? This Brit does a fantastic job of taking horrible reality and making it hilarious. Without, I might add,…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Some necessary levity
Okkupy teh Wall Streetz! And why is this happening? Well, That’s why. You can’t haz cheezburger when all da cookiez is in da banksterz.
Fear of a white shirt
A whiteshirt (the now infamous Anthony Bologna, police inspector, NYPD) pepper-sprays a group of peaceful women protesters at Occupy Wall Street. You can hear one of the blue-shirted officers say…
Short ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx occupies Wall Street
It’s one of those drizzly, autumnal days around here. Usually, just the kind of weather that would send a kitty indoors, to curl up on her humans’ laps, with her…
Heroes for Today: Talking back to the 1%ers
You heard the lady. Pay it forward, you tax-dodging billionaires.
Economics for Dummies: It’s still going on
More at The Real News And it will go on until further notice. (Speaking of which, Wall Street, you are now being put on.)
Short ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx takes on Wall St.
The Stumpy Cat has been rather busy of late, chasing mice, moles, voles and chipmunks out in the garden. But she’s sticking her cyber-head in now to meow at me.…
Stupid Sex Tricks: 9-11, with a side order of commodified female flesh
Gawd bless Amurrica! This was uploaded by Hooters itself, two days before the 9-11 x 10 mourn-a-thon. I believe the underlying message is “Eat greasy wings and ogle these Twin…
Quotable: B. Lester on hoarding
“If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats we call her nuts.…
Quotable: Adam Smith said WHAT?
“The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to …the…
In capitalism, everything is a commodity…
…be it women: …or children: Yes, that’s right…human beings are now objects to be “won” in stupid radio contests. Incidentally, both these contests are being held by Canadian radio stations.…
Payola: Not just for $ and P anymore!
A while back, I posted about how a certain ratings agency takes payola. Now, it looks like another one also does: A former senior analyst at Moody’s has gone public…
Economics for Dummies: Another horrible trapped-miner story
Yes, this is satire. But it has a very large, uncracked grain of truth in it. Can you spot it?
Economics for Dummies: Mike Ruppert on provocateurs and the British riots
Mike Ruppert, a former drug-enforcement cop from Los Angeles who helped expose the CIA’s role in drug smuggling to the US, analyzes the London riots. These riots have an economic…
Economics for Dummies: S & P = $ and Payola
Ah, nostalgia…it just ain’t what it used to be. Used to be that payola was just something that sleazy record promoters slipped to radio DJs to turn a mediocre pop…
Economics for Dummies: “Austerity” explained
…in terms so simple, even a Repug could understand them: Shamelessly stolen from here. (Thanks, Pale!)
Economics for Dummies: Happy Bastille Day!
Sing the choirs of cacophony: And like the good band says: La Guillotine will claim her bloody prize… A new survey from Insite Security and IBOPE Zogby International of those…