Nicky Cheese

According to self-described “futurist” Richard Neville, due to hyper-consumerism and its detrimental environmental effects, “there are going to be very turbulent social times ahead”.

What individuals will be the “target for outrage in the future”, the object of this turbulence? His hit-list includes:
1. economists
“People are going to start getting very angry at economics because their whole [...]

Less than a year after being released from prison, Dr. Jack Kevorkian is running for Congress in Michigan’s 9th District as an independent.

If elected, the right-to-die advocate will (predictably) focus on changing the Ninth Amendment to allow for assisted-suicide; he has also expressed opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq. I’m ignorant to the rest [...]

From citizen-times.com, a story of the feds busting up an illegal moonshine distillery in the south-east boonies:
Maggie Valley moonshine legend Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton is in jail again after authorities in east Tennessee said they uncovered a large whiskey distillery housed in a barn near his home. He also faces charges coming from a Monday seizure [...]

Virginia Postrel, author of The Future and Its Enemies–one of my favorite pieces of political nonfiction–is featured in reason.tv’s latest video entitled Organ Transplants: Kidneys for Sale (I had a blog post with the same subtitle here).
‘What’d she do–donate her kidney?’
Why yes she did! In order to save an ally’s life. In order to [...]

Adbusters. What a piece of work. If you thought last week’s rant against Menial Matters was harsh, you have yet to hear my thoughts on the misanthropic, anti-consumerist luddites at Adbusters. Suffice it to say, they’re not positive.

But that diatribe will have to wait as I’m limiting this post to their unsuccessful lawsuit, which–in ten [...]

It’s so well-done I actually can’t stop playing it. Inspirational and moving. Too bad it came out three months too late…

Instead, when it really counted (Iowa and New Hampshire), we were left with these clunkers…

A shame, yes. But it’s okay. The r3VOLution will go on.
H/T: Liberty Girl

For those of you who didn’t know, I’m living in Houston now. Tonight will be two weeks. Woo-wee, Texas!
Anyhow, over the weekend, my roommate and I drove a couple hours to Austin to go to a few bars and check out the atmosphere of SXSW. I wasn’t really interested in any of the bands [...]

Last week Tuesday, the Center for Union Facts launched the “Ten Worst Union-Protected Teachers” contest:
Thanks to outmoded, union-defended employment laws and policies, it can be impossible to fire a bad union-protected teacher. That’s why the Center for Union Facts is going to pay the ten worst union-protected teachers in America $10,000 apiece to get out [...]

From the popular blog Stuff White People Like, we get #82 on its running list: Hating Corporations.
It’s hilarious and dead-on:
One of the more popular white person activities of the past fifteen years is attempting to educate others on the evils of multi-national corporations. White people love nothing more than explaining to you how Wal*Mart, McDonalds, [...]

I really just don’t get the purpose of Media Matters. Are they for anything beyond thrashing (anything and everything associated with) conservatism? I mean, I’m no conservative but — jeesh — the empty, yellow-journalism that comes out of that organization is ridiculous. Seriously, any affirmative values whatsoever?
The Media Matters Who We Are section states that [...]