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Tag Archives: money
The Trumpashianization of America
Behold the myriad ways to ponder how we arrived at this particular time of commercialization in America. Corporations have capitalized on merchandizing, marketing, profit-making, and commodifying everything: Hollywood, Disneyland, sports, toys, food, cigarettes, booze, (add your list here), and people. Take a look at a few … Continue reading
Posted in Absurd, People, Politics
Tagged booze, capitalize, cigarettes, commodify, corporate, Disneyland, food, Hollywood, Kardashian, merchandize, money, PewDiePie, sports, toys, Trump
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PARTY? What PARTY? She’s Come Undone…
I get letter after letter after email after phone call about this. It’s not just daily, but rather HOURLY at this point. (See the latest email/letter at the bottom of this rant.) Do any of us know just how much … Continue reading
America: Enough of the TOXIC STRESS on the Middle Already!
Have you been holding your head in your hands for so long now that you realize your arms don’t belong in that place connected to the head? I teach for a living and man, and I have got to tell … Continue reading
First, they came for my students…
We are no longer the middle and we are not the bottom, but rather a new class of worker bees: America’s teachers who have been beaten into a twenty-mule team pulling the reformer’s idea of “right choices” for students to better compete on the global stage. Most … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged Arne Duncan, Common Core, data, Deductive Reasoning, Education Reformer, Educators, Middle Class, money, Policy, research, Standardized Testing, students, Studies, teachers
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The Insidious Lie of the American Dream
T’was the night before MayDay and all through the land Every worker left stranded held a vote in their hand When all of the town bell towers struck thirteen The people all realized the lie of an American dream For … Continue reading
Tsunami of Greed
So it comes to this: we are being swept away by the pathos of the power grab. The uber-rich own us. The madman in all of the Marvel comics whom the heroes attempt to save us from are actually a … Continue reading
Poly Ticks – sucking the blood out of America
The first definition of the word “poly” is: more than one; many; much. The second definition is: more than usual; excessive; abnormal. I’m going to focus on the latter with regard to the second definition of the word “ticks” in … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Writing
Tagged Americans, Arachnids, Bible, Blood, capitalist, corporations, Earnings, education, Employees, FDR, Google, Governor, Middle Class, money, Multinational, Nest Labs, New Deal, Nurses, poor, Poverty, power, Scott Walker, Ticks, Unemployed, Union, Wage, Wal-Mart, Wall Street, Walton, Workers
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A 2013 chock-full of people with too much money who are too full of themselves
This December umbrage begins with reading the remedial writing of a tech snob, Greg Gopman, whose social media posts regarding the plight of the homeless in San Francisco is truly beyond all. What you don’t want to know can be … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged 2013, aid, Capitalism, charity, do good, donate, drones, First Round Capital, fortunate, good will, Greg Gopman, help, holiday, human, humanity, investment, money, poor, underprivileged, unmanned, video
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Where does all of the parking money go?
It’s been awhile since I’ve spent “living” time in San Francisco. Oh, I lived here before, back in 2005. Then, the lure of the East Bay and an easier living in Oakland lured me to the art, the artists, the … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged AT&T, ballpark, cars, employed, fees, Giants, GottaFindAHome, homeless, money, parking, parking meter, parking ticket, ripoff, San Francisco, SF, streets, Sundays
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