The modern grocery store, with its aisles brimming with a seemingly endless variety of products, is more than just a place to purchase food. It is a microcosm of society, a reflection of our values, our desires, and our fears. At its core, the grocery store is a commerce marketplace, a place where goods are […]
Category: society
Picking Yourself Up After Devastating Financial Loss
There’s no magic in this. No quick way out, click here and your woes go away. Or worse yet, pay me and I’ll take care of it for you. This is just a set of simple, plain common-sense solutions that will work, and can work amazingly well when consistently applied. As human creatures we have […]
Quantum
As many friends know, occasionally I muse, and frequently lament the state of rock music as it applies to both today’s live and recording landscape. It has devolved over the decades into a seemingly endless desert where every day that you stride toward, you end up further away from the distant cool mountain springs. The […]
Question 31 … : What is the meaning of life?
Every once in a while I’ll go through my Google bookmarks bar and tidy it up. See what’s still relevant and what’s not, and cull it to my more current temporal interests. I have a batch of folders on the top bar, each dedicated to a field of interest with the links placed in their […]
Mass(ive) Media – part deux
After re-reading my prior posting about the Mass(ive) Media, it got me to thinking about how I was blaming mass-media for the polarizing rift in our society. We shouldn’t be so tough on these guys. I mean the information age has also decimated traditional media outlets. We don’t really need them anymore, we get all […]