Libertarianism’s poison pill: Having everything run by corporations who only care about this month’s profit statements always leads to disaster because corporations are acting in their own short term interest with absolutely no thought to the general welfare of the country or the long-term consequences of their actions. Dubai is just the latest victim.

It’s a basic principle of corporate greed that if you, the consumer, have one dime to spend freely, they are doing something wrong. Microsoft, a standard practitioner of corporatism, is dedicated to making sure you’ll be a little poorer in the future.

Fuck your “bliss.”  That’s right, wage slave, take whatever job the
Huge Corporation offers you with whatever salary they’re paying and
shut the fuck up about it!  USA!  USA!  USA!
Do What You Love and Starve – Kiplinger.com

According to this article, there are many advertisers prepared to pay top dollar to buy ads on TV shows which the networks are putting on the Internet.
This confuses my simple mind.  Television writers are on strike as we speak because the show producers and networks say that there’s no money to be made on the [...]

Michael Eisner, former head of Disney and the man who thinks he can propel the never-has-been-funny Bazooka Joe to superstardom, has some advice for the striking Hollywood writers.  He thinks their strike is stupid.  Go figure.
I’m pretty dumb about business as humans go, but I have learned one thing: when someone whose interests are diametrically [...]