The media is vying for your attention. Advertisers want to manipulate your attention. Politicians are counting on your lack of attention.
Our bombardment with messages from the man over the airwaves, on billboards and in newspapers and magazines has become so commonplace that we often don’t stop to consider their underlying meanings or how far advertisers […]

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It may be a long read, but everyone in the US should be reading Ben Wallace-Wells’ excellent article for Rolling Stone titled How America Lost the War on Drugs. Wallace-Wells is able to lay out in no uncertain terms what many of us here in the states have been thinking for a long time but […]

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photo by: Cwbuecheler
I don’t know if you are aware of this fact, but you are not free. As you read this, your choices are being narrowed and someone somewhere is delighting in calculating your fate. Oh, those dastardly companies with their electronic gizmos and retirement plans. Oh, those sweet corrupt governments filled to the brim […]

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