Posts Tagged ‘property is theft’
Hate to say ‘I told you so’ but… A survey of 1700 couples found that the partnerships where both individuals were highly materialistic were A) richer and B) unhappier. I would understand perfectly if poor yet materialistic couples took their financial frustrations out on each other but the fact that wealth doesn’t defang the vital-gnawing [...]
If you have to earn a salary in the current economy (as opposed to, say, live off your dividends) you’re screwed. Not least because asshole corporate types think you’re a brainless serf. Daniel Indiviglio’s column ‘Why Are Corporate Profits High While Jobs and Wages Stagnate?’ in The Atlantic doesn’t offer any fresh information about the [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Roy- “I worked hard”, he says, smiling over a pint of Ginger Pale Ale, “Now I can do what I want: photography, writing, my art.” Wiry white hairs poke above the stretchy black cotton neck of Roy’s Oakshire Brewing Company tee-shirt, where his rectangular black-framed glasses drag it down. Weather lines curve [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Shamelessly cribbed from the excellent and ever-acerbic Demockrazy.com — a Manifesto for a Civilised Society The principles of civilized society: 1. No aggression of any kind is permissible except in self defense. 2. All individuals shall be free to act according to their own conscience without restriction except when such an act [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility After a month of blissful protection from random verbal harassment, men following me down the street, aggressive staring and the odd obscenity I’ve had a cold-water dunk back into the reality of being an unappropriated female. I’ve spent the weekend mooching about on my own, sans boyfriend, and presto! the magic invisibility [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility If I paid any attention to my mother’s exhortation to “not say anything at all” if I can’t say something nice Irresponsibility would be a pretty sparse affair. I take her point, however, that it is important to give air to the good stuff — if and when you find it. India’s [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Hate to say ‘I told you so’ but damn, I told you so. If you missed my post on Feminist Basics: The Beauty Myth and Credit Crunch Economics give it a once-over. Then marvel at the breathless audacity of the Guardian fashion piece headlined: Women of Britain – your designers need you! [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility I Blame The Patriarchy choragus Twisty says quite simply and beautifully in her Invasion of the Babyists post what I was trying to express in my earlier post on children at risk: For crying out loud, if a kid is what gets ejected, by all means set it free. Don’t shake it [...]
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