Sunday night I watched Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine over on Hulu.
The documentary takes a broad look at America’s obsession with guns and the fear that’s strangling our country.
I was really intrigued by Moore’s interview with Marilyn Manson, who was often blamed for the shootings in Columbine.
Continue reading The business of fear
John Mackey, the founder of Whole Foods (Austin based grocery store) has stirred some folks up with his recent Wall Street Journal article.
While I don’t know the ins and outs of the business/money side of things I think he could be on to something (Spamboy has a great expansion on Mackey’s ideas).
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Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.
When I graduated high school a friend said there were three P’s you needed as a business man in Dallas – a phone, a pager and a pistol.
Monday, six candidates for the Republican National Party Chairmanship took part in a “debate.” Two (three) of the questions posed to candidates where, “How many guns do you own?” and “Do you use Twitter and how many followers do you have?”
I guess that means that owning guns and using Twitter makes you qualified to be the GOP leader? I’ll let you decide.
*notice – no photographers or politicians were hurt in the shooting of this photo.
Gas prices have actually started to drop – ever so slightly in our neck of the woods. I doubt it will continue much more.
Now that more and more folks are turning to public transportation when and where they can and reducing their consumption of oil intake — the powers that be realize they can getaway with $4 gas – but probably not much more…. for now.
But as gas prices have risen – so has the price of food – and yet no one’s made much of a stink about “big ag.” Could it be because everyone’s too busy making a fuss about “big oil?” Or is it because big ag keeps pointing the finger at big oil?
Either way, Herrick Kimball, the Deliberate Agrarian, seems to think big ag’s profits are a greater concern.
Personally I am far more concerned with the huge profits currently being made by big agricultural industries (BigAg) than I am with BigOil. Food is an absolute necessity for every human on earth. Oil is not.
Food production and distribution is, of course, intertwined with fossil fuels, but not inextricably, Believe it or not, civilization can (and will) survive without an overabundance of crude oil. We have around six thousand years of pre-oil human history to prove that. People are resourceful. They can adapt to such changes. At least some can.
But food is another story. There are currently millions of people in the world facing significant hardship, malnutrition, and even starvation over this matter of food. Why? Because they and their countries are dependent on BigAg’s food, the cost of which is rising at alarming rates. And all the while, the BigAg corporations are making record profits.
I tend to agree. What about you? Be sure and read the rest of his post.
Related ::
DART – Dallas Area Rapid Transit
DART’s Chairman Report May 08
The Deliberate Agrarian :: Big Ag…Big Profits…Big Problems
SSL :: simply living simple
SSL :: simply living simple pt 2
Luckily I don’t have to wear a suit for work. I am asked to wear a collared shirt anytime I’m going out any public. Not a big deal, you have to wear that to play golf in many places.
But suits? Mark Cuban feels their unnecessary as well.
Someone had once told me that you wear to work what your customers wear to work. That seemed to make sense to me, so I followed it, and expected those who worked for me to follow it as well.
After I sold MicroSolutions I decided that I never would wear a suit again. I was able to hold true to that while I was making a lot of money trading stocks for the next 5 years, but then Todd and I started AudioNet which would morph into Broadcast.com.
With our new business, I decided that I would have to wear a suit, but would modify the rule so that I would only wear a suit when someone I was selling to was wearing a suit. If they were selling to me, I didn’t care if they were wearing a tux. I was going to go comfortable and not wear a suit.
When Broadcast.com was sold, the suit went out the window completely. I vowed to never wear one again other than weddings and funerals, and only then because it wasn’t worth the hassle to deal with people asking why you didn’t wear a suit. I’m certain the people getting married dint care, and I don’t think anyone is going to be looking down at me wondering why I showed up at their funeral without a suit. Suits make no sense whatsoever.
Cuban suggest employers give their employees a raise and let them come to work with no suits required. Thoughts, comments?