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Banks These Days
Older folks like to rattle on about “kids these days”, how reckless and irresponsible and even cruel they are. Sounds a lot like banks these days. Sure, it’s terrible that kids these days have no manners and don’t appreciate anything they do have, but we really do have bigger problems in the raw immorality of ...
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A (Short) Rant on Unemployment
When Americans say they’re concerned about the economy, what they mean is that they’re concerned about jobs, jobs, and jobs. Unemployment, potential or actual, in a fragile economy, is at the forefront of many Americans’ minds. Unemployment means not being able to support yourself, it means not being able to put food on the table ...
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Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
Thanksgiving is coming up. It’s a much anticipated day in America, a day of sharing a meal in communion with family and perhaps some friends. After the floating turkey balloons, the Sesame Street and Charlie Brown floats of the Thanksgiving Day Parade, televisions switch over to the green of the gridiron for some Thanksgiving Day ...
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Occupy Slander
Slander is defined by the New Oxford American Dictionary as “the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person’s reputation.” Libel is the published equivalent of slander. It’s easy to imagine, of course, that for every libel, slander must come first; thus I refer to every instance of false allegations ...
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The Social Art of Justice
Humans enter this world stark naked, vulnerable, shrieking and wailing. The world outside of the womb is frightening. Senses overwhelm the newborn babe. Could children know that the world into which they have entered is pregnant with a plenitude of injustices? With time, the growing child’s senses will be honed. Combined with the abstract concepts ...
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The Occupy Movement: Democracy of the Disenfranchised
Democracy is a simple, convoluted, elegantly messy, greatly loathed and much beloved thing. The word means rule by the many. If you’ve ever found it impossible to come to any semblance of a decision with a very few friends, you can understand how decision-making amongst the many would present, shall we say, difficulties. Those of ...