We had a nice Thanksgiving dinner with the older of my brothers and his family. Those boys do know how to cook.
Now the winter holiday/sales orgy kicks into high gear. I imagine your complaints about the number of commercials and the repetitive nature of those commercial breaks will also escalate. Mom has asked many commercials they can cram into a slot. We have counted as many as 10. And so often we see those damned ads repeated back-to-back-(sometimes)to-back.
The New Republic has a long article on an on-going "brain drain." Red States are losing physicians, educators and other highly trained professionals because they refuse to go on living and working in the radical "conservatism" those states are enacting. I used quotes because I have never understand what they are conserving for whom.
Robert Reich started a 10 part series on American Capitalism. From his introduction it will be a very good series.
Bill Astore echoes some of my own feelings about our commercial culture.
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