No “giant corporations are evil” discussion would be complete without considering Walmart. Let’s see…bad for the economy, driving wages down, or lowering prices for consumers? I discussed the new genetic mutation of Supersumer that will take (consumer) evolution to the next level. And consider the dude that lived in a Walmart for 41 [...]

There’s no doubt that coffee farmers, like other farmers, laborers, sweatshop workers and musicians, often get a raw deal. The middleman takes most of the money, and the coffee farmer sells their beans for practically nothing. Life sucks.
Fair trade emerged to protect coffee farmers by paying a premium price above market rate for coffee [...]

Leprechaun in Mobile, Alabama (thanks, Alex).

NYT on the phenomenon of the beard:
On city streets, too, trends in scruff have reached new levels of unruliness, a backlash, some beard enthusiasts say, against the heightened grooming expectations that were unleashed with the rise of metrosexuality as a cultural trend. Men both straight and gay, it appears, want to feel rough and manly.
Since [...]

It must be something deeply rooted in human nature that pushes us to cooperate, despite how much we completely despise one another on the surface. How else do you explain those tattered homeless dudes that spontaneously appoint themselves traffic cop at locations inexplicably deemed in need of order? Indeed, three times in the last week [...]

Senate OKs increased debt ceiling. Speaks for itself.
No Democrats voted for raising the debt limit, leaving Republicans with casting the politically-difficult vote in favor of increased borrowing.
So which party is the conservative one? Send your bitch-ass Senators an email urging them to stop spending imaginary money.

I’d like to bring up one of the most tiresome debates ever, the smoking ban. But before I do, let’s sum up what we know without even thinking, a-priori style:
1. Smoking is cool whether you enjoy it, or it makes your eyes burn.
2. Smoking will indeed kill you, if you give it enough time.
3. It [...]

Why do I doubt all of these “facts?” Well, don’t miss the St. Patrick’s Parade, you Georgia-Irish hillbillies…

Almost 40% of Georgians claim Irish heritage.
More than 1,000,000 Atlanta residents are of Irish descent.
Atlanta ranks as the 7th largest “Irish City” in North America.

I’ve been trumpeting the “GOP aren’t conservative” meme for a while now and it appears that the media is picking up on this more and more. I take full credit for that. Check out the full CATO event if you can.
Unchallenged, the Bartlett-Sullivan tag team continued. “The entire intellectual game has been given away [...]

H.R. 4694, is a bill designed to kill third parties and independents. Congress wants you to have the freshly streamlined “freedom” to vote exclusively for the party of DUMB or the party of DUMBER, but no one else. How thoughtful of them. Hm, what’s next? Maybe only let registered Republicans and Democrats vote at all? [...]