We’re having a lively debate here at the Avocado Jungle on the limits, if any, to profit. Is it okay to profit off of the poor and sick? Is there a need to regulate such ideas? Are there things we should just do for one another so that everyone benefits equally?
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March 10, 2010, at 1:57 am — Blogs — debate / ethics / health care / morals / profit / THEME: Profit
The concept of profit in a capitalist society is essentially devoid of ethical considerations. There is one goal: increase net profit. Profit sucks out the soul of humanity: any help needed comes with a price tag; all price tags come with an included and invisible mark up (pure-hearted charity excluded). Welcome to the first AVJ Writers’ Debate! We’ll post an assertion to be argued for or against, and ask all of our writers to come to the table for a good honest debate. Comments are now open to all readers. ASSERTION: The government should help to ensure that no business profits excessively off the sick, disabled, or poor. March 6, 2010, at 11:24 pm — Blogs —
I want to welcome a few new talents to our family of awesome people. Tharuna Devchand is a young lady from South Africa with quite a talent for writing and entertaining. Dan Rickabus is a musician from Michigan who we just featured on the site. We asked him to be our music blogger and he luckily said “yes.” Tharuna and Dan both love to hear opinions and share ideas, so don’t be shy. March 5, 2010, at 11:35 pm — Blogs — 97.1 / allman / allman in the morning / bunning / career / cnn / consitution / founding fathers / govern / government / ireport / kronmiller / kyl / morning / obama / senator / st. louis / unemployment
This Friday I stayed up until 5:30 AM Pacific in order to do a call-in interview with conservative talk show host Jamie Allman on St. Louis’ 97.1 FM. Instead of discussing the real consequences of the economic crisis and instead of focusing on the realities that it has brought – Allman chose to focus on me and my year of unemployment. In the public eye, divorce has become a speed bump. It’s a tedious process that is more of a hassle than an emotional ordeal. Time used to be that divorces were a rarity, deemed a sort of failure on both persons’ parts; now it is an ugly sometimes-necessity for people who know better than to try to work it out. What this teaches children, and subconsciously ingrains into the minds of young adults everywhere, is that there is an easy alternative to the strife of marriage: get out. *Warning – this is not going to be gentle but it will be fair. Divorce in this country has become acceptable. That’s the truth. We, as Americans, love our right to divorce. We love the ability to bail. To leave. To quit. We love quitting. Love it. We love giving up more than we love admitting our own faults, more than we well…love love itself. I used to think that divorce was an easy escape from marriage; it allowed people to rush into commitment and then hire an attorney to finalise the demise of something that was just not perfect enough. It seemed like a golden ticket in every Willy Wonka chocolate bar. Then I met a 63-year-old woman who told me that obtaining a divorce was the best decision that she had ever made and that, while she still loved her ex-husband, they just couldn’t make it work. Having waited for her children to grow up and settle down, she filed for a divorce at the age of 61. Just a quick note on something special that’s happening these next few months on the Avocado Jungle. We have the pleasure and honor of having a very talented photographer as our first ever Artist In Residence. Angela Richelle is a photographer, working professional and mother living in Southern California. We’ll have more soon, perhaps even an interview of a decent length. For now I’d like to encourage everyone to see her first work as our Artist In Residence, a chills-inducing shot of her own divorce papers–and a very candid and moving bit of writing to go with it. The photo is entitled, “Dissolution of Marriage.” February 27, 2010, at 11:11 pm — Blogs | Comics — Comics / Congo and Steve / divorce / humor / THEME: Divorce
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