Posts filed under ‘Random Rants’
Random Rants: The 99%
We are the 99%!
This chant has recently been heard in cities round the world, starting in lower Manhattan. The second round of these protests is beginning as we venture closer towards the 2012 elections. The sentiment behind the protest is that wages and profits are being amassed by the top 1% of income earners and that taxes on those wages are not fair in relation to income earned by the wealthy. The economic pie is being sliced very unevenly – and those who are wealthy are eating more than their fair share, while only paying for a little sliver of a slice.
It is interesting that the protests began on Wall Street, where millions of Americans of the 99% income bracket invest and risk their earned income for the opportunity to make it grow by investing in businesses to help them grow. That, and the top 1% of income earners already pay 40% of income taxes.
What is often overlooked by those vocal protesters of the 99% movement is that the pie is not static in size – we can bake a bigger pie and the economy grows. (more…)
Random Rants: What you say and what you mean
Insure you’re words our write … Ensure your words are right
You don’t have to be a full-fledged word nerd but understanding some word use basics is not only helpful but a way to avoid embarrassment. Here is a random list of common misuses. How many have you heard used incorrectly?
among or between
between introduces two items, and among introduces more than two
anxious vs. eager
Anxious is not a synonym for eager. A good reminder is the connection between anxious and anxiety, which means worried or distressed.
asterisk
many times said as asterik
egg yolk
sometimes heard in the Midwest as egg yoke
enormity
extreme evil not enormousness (more…)
Random Rants: That fruit company…you know the one
In the classic movie Forest Gump Mr. Gump made millions by investing, “in some kind of fruit company.” That fruit company was Apple. Not the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree but the ostentatious in-your-face marketing machine known then as Apple Computer and now as Apple Inc. Apple’s market capitalization surpassed Microsoft’s and is now second in the world behind only Exxon Mobil. Their products are everywhere, their advertising is everywhere.
Quite frankly, I’m sick of it. I’m sick of turning my head only to see white earphones protrude from every wandering pedestrian (watch out for that meter!). I’m sick of seeing Apple’s blindingly white billboards and posters plastered around our otherwise beautiful city. And I’m sick of riding elevators with imbeciles who fumble with their iPhones to check Facebook (really, nothing has happened to your friends in the last 20 seconds; they don’t care you had lasagna for lunch and are now ready for a snooze at your posh office where your nano plays nature sounds to facilitate your nap). (more…)
Random Rants: Are you a foodie?
Are you a foodie? Let’s hope not.
Turn on the TV, flip through a magazine or go online and you will blaze past channel and page of chefs chopping away. There are angry chefs, scientific ones, wanna-be angry chefs, people cooking outside, people cooking in a ship’s galley, people obsessing over trace ingredients and arcane methods by which to assemble a meal.
Show after show, and with piles of pages there is a furious competition going on for our attention. It all involves food. Food, food, food – foodie food. (more…)
