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Saturated with greenwashing

“Actions speak louder than words.”
English Idiom
Apparently, it’s very easy being green. Everyone from computer manufacturers to television companies to tire companies is “going green,” and all the companies really want everyone to know it.
We’ve all seen them. It’s practically impossible to watch a commercial segment these days without seeing some kind of advertisement where someone [...]


McCain campaign: one of hypocrisy

“It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.”
- Plutarch
People, I have had enough. My frustration has been growing for some time and the straw that broke the camel’s back has [...]


Music piracy: inevitable

A society should not be judged on how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals …
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
Perhaps the article that ran last Tuesday ["Downloaders beware," ODE Oct. 14, 2008] struck a chord because I’m such an Internet junkie. It could also be that my Info Hell subject indirectly relates to [...]


Size Doesn't Matter

“We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit… [These] Pro America areas of this great nation.” – Former Miss Alaska runner up Sarah Palin, Greensboro, N.C., October 16th, 2008.
We have a little saying around my house – “God, I HATE Sarah Palin!” And if you wonder [...]