Getting corporations out of our families
If you haven't seen the hilarious pair of videos with Jack Black as the Mis-Informant, Nathan Spewman, then now's your chance to have a good laugh at industry PR campaigns. "And just like that, misinformation is spread like the wings of an eagle soaring high above America's freedom-loving people. Professional misinformanting. It's a dirty job. But somebody's gotta do it." The particular … [Read more...]
In an New York Times opinion piece about various ways that corporations use their "rights" as persons to exercise their "free speech" and get to our kids, Joel Bakan addresses the widespread use of psychotropic drugs to treat kids for conditions such as ADHD. Not only might oft-prescribed drugs like Ritalin be unnecessary or unhelpful in many cases. These drugs might also be dangerous. "In … [Read more...]