by Gil Friend | Jun 1, 2004 | Politics
[AlterNet]: A new report [PDF] released from Good Jobs First this week shows that Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, has received more than $1 billion in economic development subsidies from states for its stores and distribution centers. I’ve never...
by Gil Friend | May 2, 2004 | Politics
I try to focus my limited blogging time on ‘strategic sustainability’ issues, and related matter, and eschew the near overwhelming fascination our political and geopolitical quagmires, but sometimes even my vaunted self-descipline crumbles before the...
by Gil Friend | Jan 7, 2004 | Politics
The God Gulf. I wish we could recall how Abe Lincoln achieved moral clarity without moral sanctimony.. By Nicholas D. Kristof. [New York Times: Opinion] Amazing factoid: Americans increasingly telling pollsters that they believe in prayer and miracles, while only 28...
by Gil Friend | Dec 13, 2003 | Politics
Unfortunately. No Will to Win?. The Democrats have been blessed with the high ground on one important issue after another, but they are too timid to take full advantage. By Bob Herbert. [New York Times: Opinion] The Dems may indeed sink like the Titanic next year. But...
by Gil Friend | Dec 7, 2003 | Politics
[Wealth Bondage]: On Political Visuals and the Decay of Lying Teach critical thinking, and teach with caricature, simple images, paradox, soundbite-style aphorisms, kitschy images in the vocabulary of popular culture, rely on disjunction, force thought into the...
by Gil Friend | Dec 3, 2003 | Politics
[Wealth Bondage]: G.W. Bush was found wandering the White House, muttering, What a fool I have been! I see it now, “Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.” I don’t know quite what to make of Wealth Bondage, but I do...
