Archive for August 2009
Thanks, Matt, I Needed That
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 22, 2009
A couple of posts ago, commenter Matt upbraided me as follows:
Here is your biggest problem Peter – you are so totally enamored now that your ‘team’ has taken the ‘lead’(and you are a ‘team’ type person) that you have submerged your critical thinking abilities so far down that they practically no longer exist.
Actually, I mentioned [...]
People Are Choosing Sides
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 21, 2009
A comment that Matt submitted to my last post got me thinking. Matt wrote:
Here is your biggest problem Peter – you are so totally enamored now that your ‘team’ has taken the ‘lead’(and you are a ‘team’ type person) that you have submerged your critical thinking abilities so far down that they practically no longer [...]
Whole Foods: The Politics of Betrayal
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 20, 2009
I love reading the reactions of the reactionaries to the emerging Whole Foods boycott. They’re like children experiencing a new phenomenon. They don’t know what to make of it, so they fill the vacuum in their comprehension with the simple things that they “know”. Here are some such confused reactions:
“Why be mad at Whole Foods? [...]
Whole Foods on the Front Lines
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 19, 2009
UPDATE: Mackey didn’t create the title for his opinion piece. Instead, the WSJ editors did. But that doesn’t change my position on this one. Lie down with dogs, and you get fleas.
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I was wasting another evening, surfing for sports news, when I stumbled upon a story in the SF Chronicle about the Whole Foods boycott. [...]
People vs. Corporations: It’s Happening
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 11, 2009
The original root of this blog was a hunch of mine that the next great crisis that would visit America would be described as: People vs. Corporations. This hunch was based upon, of all things, my reading of a couple of books (When Corporations Rule the World, by David Korten; and The Fourth Turning, [...]
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