Culture
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The Company Town (and another call for a fifty-dollar minimum wage)
The company town! That grand experiment in corporate feudalism, now reincarnated in the unholy trinity of penal labor, affordable housing, and the modern workplace. Let us embark on a journey… Read more.
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On matters of predatory employment practices and a fifty-dollar federal minimum wage
Today, we confront a question that strikes at the very foundation of our Republic: whether businesses may profit at the expense of the liberty and dignity of their employees. Let… Read more.
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We’re Not Just Tough on Crime, We’re Addicted to It
The 1980s and 1990s were a golden era for those who believe that the path to a just society is paved with prison cells and cheap labor. Let us embark… Read more.
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The age-old debate between hard rock and heavy metal
In ancient Egypt, flint was the very essence of divinity. Imagine the god Thoth, with his ibis head and scribe’s palette, his heart not of flesh and blood, but of… Read more.
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Is the Byers-Evans House Haunted?
Hold onto your ectoplasm, you faint-hearted fools! The Byers-Evans House isn’t just haunted – it’s a paranormal powder keg ready to explode with spectral shenanigans that would make Houdini himself… Read more.
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EL CHIRADO – INDUSTRY, TEMPERANCE AND MORALITY (DEAR GOD)
El Chirado? More like El Ridiculo! Saddle up, pardners! We’re about to lasso ourselves a tale wilder than a bronco in a thunderstorm – the wacky story of the Chicago-Colorado… Read more.
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In the matter of Homeowners Associations v. Common Sense and Individual Liberty
Before us stands a scourge upon the American landscape, a festering boil on the backside of freedom – the Homeowners Association. Are we truly to stand idly by, while these… Read more.
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Education System as a Conveyor Belt to Exploited Labor and a Rube Goldberg Machine of Mediocrity (in the spirit of Justice Perplexity Scalia)
Let us not mince words about the TRAVESTY masquerading as our education system. It’s not a pipeline to prosperity; it’s a CONVEYOR BELT to exploited labor. We’ve created a Rube… Read more.
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A plague of ‘power’ quote
It is as though our species has been devastated by a modern Black Plague. And indeed it has, but a plague of Power, not germs. The souls of this monstrous… Read more.
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