Polls. They seem to matter to people. They certainly get their fair share of attention in the media and politicians salivate over them like a TV executive looking at ratings.
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March 11, 2010, at 3:10 pm — Blogs — corporations / natural resources / profit / scarcity / THEME: Profit / water
Leading experts in the water industry claim that water is the next oil. In next couple decades, we will see rampant population growth running headlong into waning water supply. The UN claims that 31 countries are now facing water scarcity issues while 1 billion lack access to clean drinking water. It’s not that the water [...] March 11, 2010, at 8:00 am — Blogs | Comics — Comics / Congo and Steve / friendship / humor / THEME: Friendship
March 10, 2010, at 1:57 am — Blogs — debate / ethics / health care / morals / profit / THEME: Profit
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? 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. |
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