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• Commercialism-- Another year, same topic

  
  A Piece of My Mind — Authority: 110
  It is no secret that I am not a fan of commercialism and marketing, especially marketing geared towards children. As the holidays, and I mean ALL holidays, begin showing up in stores months and months in advance, I become increasingly disgusted. I saw Christmas items out in early October this year. Halloween items ...
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• Reject Radio: Episode 25: Ring-a Ding Ding

  
  Film School Rejects — Authority: 655
  Brought to you by: That Dating Website You Just Joined – Don’t worry. This one probably won’t find you true happiness either. This week, on a very special episode of Reject Radio, I fight my way through nasal congestion to provide another electrifying show thanks completely to my special guests – the ...
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• OMG! Only 45 Shopping Days Left

  
  NPR Check — Authority: 423
  Monday meant that there were only 45 shopping days before Christmas, and NPR was in crass commercialism high gear. If you were casually listening to Morning Edition , you might have thought NPR was reporting on its own newsreader stars - Montagne, Inskeep, Siegel, Norris, and Block - "[They]...have names like Mr. ...
  2 days ago

• Olympic Games is an expensive and phony yawn

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 489
  Canadas Robyn Perry carries the Flame towards the Olympic Cauldron. Source: Library and Archives Canada. Liberals complain about Olympic Torch favouritism In one week the Liberals have turned on the Opposition heat and sent the Conservatives underground. The latest complaint about favoritism in sending the Olympic ...
  3 days ago

• What Would Happen if You Killed Your Television?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  "Commercialism is a vacuum," my mother warned me. "It will suck you in." I was seven or eight years old and my mother was running a bath for me. I imagined being sucked down the drain into a wet underworld of nefarious Disney characters. I was getting the lecture because Id been caught watching television beyond my ...
  5 days ago

• This recycled newspaper dog costs way too much money

  
  Practically Green — Authority: 113
  This dog from Viva Terra is made with recycled newspaper. But for $100, you can make a real pup pretty happy. As soon as Halloween was over, I saw the Christmas/holidays stuff appear instantly at stores around Chicago. Our consumerist culture doesnt take a breather, does it? Unfortunately, this buy buy buy ...
  5 days ago

• It’s looking a lot like Bah Humbug

  
  If Mom Says OK — Authority: 127
  Walking through Tar-jay yesterday I felt like I had wandered into a Rankin/Bass holiday special. Three-foot silver and red snowflakes hung in clusters from the ceiling so that I had to brave a gauntlet of glitter and tinsel as I walked the aisles. Christmas trees, already decorated, were on shelves as store employees ...
  5 days ago

• Back in black

  
  Think Lynsen — Authority: 128
  Is it just me, or does it feel like the Fourth of July was a couple weeks ago? I mean, seriously, where did the year go? One minute theres fireworks and the next, its Black Friday. In case you havent seen the early info trickling out regarding Nov. 27, there are some notable deals on video games. Kmart is offering ...
  6 days ago

• Annals of rock and roll

  
  Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist — Authority: 464
  Bono wishes Bill Gates a happy birthdayFrom Harper’s Magazine Blog:Sting: Obama, Synchronicity, HypocrisyBy Ken SilversteinThe biography of a celebrity asshole, in three short chapters. Excerpts below all come from news stories published in October of 2009.From the Associated Press, on Sting’s deep thoughts on ...
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• Sunday Morning Lights

  
  Killing the Buddha — Authority: 559
  If Coach Taylor is in the pulpitand we all get to shout thisat the end of the serviceAnd slap a little painted crosson our way out to the Big Gamecalled Life?I’m in.@“The United Methodists took home the 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Award in the category of Religion & Spiritual Development with an ...
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• When our province has a $25 billion shortfall, should we...

  
  ... It Strikes Me Funny by G. Harrison — Authority: 433
  panic in the streets (it is a record of sorts, after all), review our stock portfolio with an eye to sell high, lower our material expectations for the next 10 years, start the day with a very strong drink, just keep smiling and plugging away, all of the above, or other? Personally, the answer ...
  2 weeks ago

• The newest Apple upgrade

  
  dave.ofmassdestruction.com — Authority: 106
  I read today that Apple is going to renovate the Chicago “El” stop across from their store. The run-down stop is in bad repair and the Chicago Transit Authority has no money to do anything about it. In exchange, Apple gets naming rights, control of ad-space in the station, and, of course, a better looking ...
  2 weeks ago

• A perfect excuse not to send Christmas cards

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  The postal strike could herald the end of a festive tradition. Gerald Warner looks on the bright side.
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• Wait, I can be a DJ?

  
  Think Lynsen — Authority: 128
  Ill admit, as a huge club and remix music fan, this is pretty tempting...
  2 weeks ago

• Christianity is more than wearing a cross-necklace

  
  Interfaith — Authority: 127
  Wearing a cross necklace or a fish-shaped badge to work is all very well, but Christian faith is far deeper than the symbols worn by some of its adherants, a bishop claimed this week. Jonathan Gledhill, Bishop of Lichfield, said real Christianity is about taking radical, loving action. “The mark of a real ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dr. Gerald Bracey can rest in peace – the rest of us need to get busy

  
  Generation YES Blog — Authority: 486
  The previous post ( Jerry Bracey – Rest in Peace ) contained the sad news of the passing of Dr. Gerald Bracey. People have written eulogies extolling his tenacity in unveiling the truth about school and educational policy as he saw it, and how he never let up in exposing it when he saw research being used ...
  2 weeks ago

• Balloon Boy story non-stop coverage: this is what’s wrong with (cable) media

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  The Associated Press has reported that the Larimer County, Colorado sheriff’s office has already ascertained that the Heene family did not stage a hoax when the Balloon boy’s parents reported that their 6-year-old son was feared to have been in ‘a helium balloon that floated away from their home and traveled ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tears Of A Clown

  
  43-Ideas-Per-Minute — Authority: 139
  Im really starting to get concerned. Not for Glenn Beck, but for people who actually take this man seriously. This was Becks coda to a show ripe with cropped quotes from members of the Obama administration - a plea for a more Rockwellian time when commercialism was a little more heart-warming. Is he even making ...
  3 weeks ago

• Airline sheds 1,000 jobs - good news or bad?

  
  ... It Strikes Me Funny by G. Harrison — Authority: 433
  I’d hate to lose my job. (Regular readers likely know I’m a retired school teacher who makes birdhouses , chairs, bowls, odds and sods in my spare time to pay for gas for my motorcycle - so there’s really no job to lose. But, if I was back in the classroom, I’d hate to lose my job). However, as soon as I ...
  4 weeks ago

• Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs

  
  CVN Video — Authority: 141
  www.mediaed.org Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Focusing on the industry’s marketing practices, media scholars and health professionals ...
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