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Subtle Message Shirts

August 20, 2020

New Improved Feudalism This design was launched 6 years ago at a different pod site. It is now available at the Digital Gryphon Shirt Shop at Threadless. The once-powerful Middle Class is being replaced with [read more]

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Trickle Down Economics

October 2, 2019

Trickle Down Economic Theory There’s a problem with that neo-con favourite ‘Trickle Down’ Economic Theory. Far too much experience has proven that the pain it causes (and there is always pain) never trickles up the [read more]

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Faster Than the Speed of Nanites

March 27, 2014

The following is an edited version of an email I sent a friend who sent me an picture of a commuter train platform brimming with people engrossed in various electronic gadgets; no one seemingly aware [read more]

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Why yes, I did buy a KIA

October 14, 2011

That might not sound like a big deal; plenty of Americans are purchasing vehicles from Kia and other foreign companies. And I am not a rabid isolationist demanding enormous tariffs on all imports while crying [read more]

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Stop shopping at BigCo.

January 27, 2010

I see a very basic link between the shopping habits of American consumers and the dearth of manufacturing jobs in this country. Here is the story I’ve heard over and over; the amounts are not [read more]

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Open Letter to President Obama

September 21, 2009

Greetings Kind Sir; As an openly gay citizen who helped put you into your current position I am upset at the lack of positive action from your Administration on issues that concern me; full and [read more]