In case you missed it, mass distributor of high fructose corn syrup, fat, and crappy meat company otherwise known as McDonald's released its new ad campaign during the Super Bowl last weekend and has been plastering the airwaves in an attempt to drive sales. With a rapidly dying ...read more

The weekend is almost here at last and you'll no doubt be clamoring for something to distract you from the nagging question of whether this is the Friday you'll finally be called into your boss's office and told to gather your things and leave. Here's some reading material. 1. ...read more

Perusing McDonald's' corporate wellness site for its employees, which they actually call “McResource Line,” you might find yourself praying that it's an elaborate parody. But sadly, it is real. Real vague, real condescending and real insulting. On the heels of last summer's ...read more

Although the rich, the political elite and most of the media are not concerned with the plight of America's working poor, there are now real signs that those at the bottom rung of the economic ladder are taking matters in to their own hands and fighting back. Having spent the ...read more

It's almost impossible to teach a young child to think for him or herself. No matter how bright or advanced most kids under the age of, say, ten are, they're still not at the point where they've had enough life experience to be able to form their own strong opinions on ...read more

I have been struggling to collect my thoughts about the riots in the UK this past week largely because they have affected the areas in which I grew up in London. Watching your home town being burnt and looted is not much fun, and although I am thousands of miles away in Los ...read more