Category Archives: capitalism

120 Years Of Economic Repression

48D Long Freedom

I loved the old Times Square. Now it’s a tourist trap waiting the rebirth of a generation of vicious Fagins, the criminal kingpin of Charles Dickens’ OLIVER TWIST. I have more respect more respect for the ruthless thieves of the 70s than the XXXXL tourists stuffing their faces with fast food on the ruins of […]

Death Of The Twinkie

Holy Bacon No

Deuteronomy 14:3-10 states, “Do not eat any detestable thing. … The pig is also unclean; although it has a split hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.” Jews consider pork ‘tref’ or unclean. The Q’aran maintains the same edict. “Allah has only forbidden you […]

Less Milk

The Financial Times came out of the banking holiday with a putdown on Thomas Piketty’s book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” and its tenet that income inequality has increased to disparities unseen since before the Great Depression. According to Al-Jazeera the FT’s Chris Giles says Piketty has “got his sums wrong.” Giles writes that the […]