There’s rich, and then there’s RICH. There are moderately rich people (single digit millionaires) who love to show off how classy and debonair they are because they’ve devoted an average of seventy hours per week1 of their adult life to building or climbing a corporate ladder. And then there are super rich people, locked away in palatial ghettoes, who don’t want anyone to know how much money they really hav ...

It’s coming: a muddy hopelessness that seeps into the soil, skates along the ocean surface, and chokes even the tiniest amoeba. For weeks a poisonous cloud of chemically disbursed oil has been stirred and emulsified into the currents of the Gulf of Mexico. It’s going to come closer to the shore than anyone predicted. Soon we inhabitants of the Gulf coast will be confronted with the most deadly consequences ...

In the harsh climate of postmodern America the old adage “Money talks” doesn’t suffice: money screams. With the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Citizen’s United v. the Federal Election Commission, a corporation’s right to sway elections with its wealth has essentially been granted part of its right to free speech, making this old turn of phrase a bitter reality. Many writers have pointed out some of the po ...

The concept of karoshi, a Japanese word that translates to “death from overwork” has gained notoriety throughout both hemispheres during the economic powerhouse decades of the eighties in Japan and the nineties in America. The first case reported came in 1969 from the shipping department of Japan’s largest national newspaper, where a 29 year old worker died suddenly of stroke during an extended shift. Three ...

It's Thanksgiving already. The day that many of us stay in bed late and are beckoned from sleep by an array of smells: turkey roasting in the oven, yams stewing in their own sweet juices, and pies filled with vanilla and spices. We gather in groups of friends and family, as many people as we can seat and feed, eat as much as we possibly can, turn on an obligatory American football game and doze off some tim ...

[caption id="attachment_10144" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Slain Soldiers Return"][/caption] It’s been eighteen years since the media was accustomed to exhibiting the rituality and solemnity that surrounds the act of transporting fallen soldiers to their final resting place. In the desolate hours of the morning on October 28th, President Obama made an unannounced and unexpected trip to Dover, Del ...