Consuming

Bottled Water: The Illusion of Purity Through Privatization

Where tap water must be disinfected and tested hundreds of times each month for bacteria, bottled water can be sold "as is" and tested only once a week! Tests for heavy metals in tap water must be performed every quarter; bottled water tests need only be conducted once a year!

Choice and Depression

We dwell on what we don't have or we become monsters who press to have all the choices available to them so that a "mistake" can be easily rectified by a different purchase.

Are You a Slave?

A good parable beats a R*ndenoid slogan any time.

Money 3

The shelves were both empty and full. A mustiness that spoke of dead books written in dead languages, cereal that had been on the shelf too long, and the garage corners piled with old clothes pushed into my nostrils.

Holiday Madness 2

Walmart acts immorally and possibly illegally in many ways. While I do not support fraud as a means of battling an evil giant, I stand by my pledge not to shop there for these other reasons.

I Pledged

I took the Wal-Mart Pledge

Holiday Madness

This was like throwing red meat into the midst of a pack of winter-starved wolves. It speaks about the bad economy that still troubles us.

Money 2

Money is a useful tool. So is a hammer.

Money

If you collected all the U.S. currency in the world -- the quarters, the Susan B. Anthony dollars with their kinky edges, the pennies filed down to the size of dimes for purposes of cheating vendors, the silver certificates held in collections, -- I mean every single last cent no mattered if it is warped, bent, half melted, half burnt, or torn in half, you would not have nearly enough to cover the amount of money that is on the books in today's banks and brokerage houses.

Zoned

But this is how the mind of the marketer works. He/she discriminates between "winners" and "losers" (who often have the blues for good reason.)

Between Fashion Threads and Gluten

Our commercial masters want us either anorexic or obese so they can possess symbolic units, totally invisible, without substance, and yet more persuasive in our lives than the idea of God.

Our Weight Problem
Like a lot of other Americans I struggle with a weight problem. I exercise regularly but that only burns so...

Cough Syrup Abuse

In the absence of signs suggesting abuse, I caution against treating your teen ager as a convict in his own house.

Fifty Dollars A Day!

"Fifty dollars!" cried I. "Why Bin Laden is heavily in your debt!"

Weighty Affairs

Could it become the fashion of the future to travel places where TB remains at large as a weight cure?