Greed and Selfishness

Cover of a 2015 book glorifying the privatization of the Internet via "a unique and vibrant interplay between government and private industry." Nothing dollarable is safe.by Thomas NeuburgerThe love of money is a sickness with these people.—Attributed to an Indian chief as he watched the Europeans move west.Nothing dollarable is safe.—John Muir, 1908Buried

What was left of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet, after it crashed to the ground six minutes after takeoff.

Prescription drug prices in the U.S. are universally hated (source).

The kind of media that misses the irony of referring to Señor Trumpanzee as “president,” is upset the the new issue of New York depicts the fake and utterly illegitimate president as a pig.

"Columbus' treatment of the Hispaniola natives was even worse [than his treatment of natives in the Bermudas] as his soldiers raped, killed, and enslaved them with impunity at every landing. When Columbus fell ill in 1495, soldiers were reported to have gone on a rampage, slaughtering 50,000 natives.

Negligent data-breach victim Equifax ironically warning its corporate customers that their data could be breachedby Gaius PubliusThe massive data breach suffered by Equifax, one of the nation's three credit data reporting agencies, caused by what looks for all the world like negligence (see below), has gotten everyone's attention, including the other two credit a

White-collar criminologist Bill Black and Aaron Mate discuss the massive Equifax data breach on The Real News Network (source)by Gaius PubliusAccording to the Associated Press the credit reporting and data storage agency Equifax has suffered a massive data breach, and information on 143 million people — including "credit card and Social Security numbers, addresses and birth dates," plus potentially a whol

Executive Vice President sounds so much better than "lobbyist sleaze bag"At the very end of February, we ran an exhaustive piece on the dangers of electing Kathleen Matthews, Chris Matthews lobbyist wife, chair of the state Democratic Party. Short version: the Democratic Party needs fewer vile millionaire elitists running the party, not more.

You can't defeat predators like these by fighting with your neighborsby Gaius PubliusThe next phase for the fight for the soul of the Democratic Party is on.The left is awash in tears and anger at the moment (as are dyed-in-the-wool Clinton supporters, who are "the left" in only some cases).

by Ken'Cause you know what they say -- when you're in love, the whole world's turned into condos. Actually, I'm not entirely sure about the "in love" part. I just threw that in to make the thing sound user-friendlier, as I'm pretty darned sure about the "turned into condos" part.