I don't think he will like how it ends...
The real pandemic with a return to the dark ages, where you will be lucky to own a rusty cup! The bill is due.
Will you give? For only $1m a day you can sponsor this billionaire and his trust-fund family.
How to bankrupt Social Security AND line their pockets at the same time. Every dollar you would keep, they would keep - for EACH employee! It's not for the "little guy" - it's for big business, CEOs, stockholders and the super rich!
In "The Story of Life" the line forms from "the top". I hope nobody at the back of our wealth-care line is counting on a happy ending. Yaaasspleen?
Greed is - Donald J. Trump. Yeah, I am sure he has our best interests in mind - is Dr. Fauci still tied-up in the closet?
Well, at least you know where you stand America. Empathy much, Mr. Secretary?
Trump and the GOP have been pushing America 1st for 5 years now, claiming "as a nation - you are what you make". 5 years to plan and implement. Yet they did nothing. Remember America - it was always just a "marketing slogan" to sell a shoddy product to the masses.
Enid, Satan's millennial daughter and recent immigrant, puts her latest etiquette lesson to use. Her Miss Manners consultant is a former Physics professor, so estimation is your friend - just show your work.
I can't let this one go. Obviously, I was too subtle. So, here is an "in your face" version. Expect future visits to this lab to witness the possible outcomes of whatever flavor of socio-economic inequality you can imagine.
I am old. In my first few jobs I used analog punchclocks. There is nothing like the awareness of life being measured in 6 minute intervals. Note: if you've never enjoyed the experience - that is 1/10 of an hour.
I will never be confused for an "environmentalist". And I build data models every day - so don't go there. But. Want to talk pollution? Or the history of tobacco, lead, asbestos, radium, etc? Have a cause? Find a face.
What is death in the modern world? And what does it mean ... to whom? Have our rituals properly evolved with the times? Should we still pause, mourn, celebrate or remember? Or just be processed through a giant microcut shredder?
What if there was a concept that could virtually eliminate poverty, hunger, homelessness? But. Humanity. And? Our potential to use it for evil. The future? Is a choice. Utopian paradise. Or. Dystopian wasteland.
From the moment we are manufactured and stamped with a “best if used by date” - we are just a supply-and-demand valued commodity: baby, student, soldier, employee, taxpayer, voter, partner, parent … corpse.
Like any child I was raised on sandwiches. Some odd - scrambled eggs mixed with miracle whip. Some normal - fried bologna with ketchup. But. I didn’t ponder goose liver until I was in my teens. When I did? Yeah. I stopped.
My neighbor moved into their house two years ago. Last month they put it on the market. And? It was sold before the end of THAT day - at $220k more than they bought it for. Do we have a housing problem? Or just a crisis?
Most of humanity’s ills can be traced to one problem. We are selfish. Our opinion, time, talents, wants, desires – are more “equal”. But. This can’t be solved with laws. Or through force. We evolve together. Or perish together.
Until you have good credit? You have no life. Me? I now own a car I’ll never drive. And. Renting an apartment in Eugene, Oregon I’ll never see. But. Sure. The system is fine. If you have two silver spoons to rub together.
Acoustic or Nils Lofgren solo? It’s weird to hear audiences in London, Dublin, Perth sing these words. When the mines went bust, my grandfather and his brothers left for the mills – Gary, Cleveland, Youngstown. Until …