a brighter tomorrow?

A bright and happy Asian-American family is looking into the sunshine of a brighter tomorrow through organic consumerism… wow! Brought to you by Chank Diesel.

Toy Choice

Recently a friend was complaining about the "toy university" where we teach. I don't take such a harsh view since I used to teach at Cog in the Machine University, and frankly, I prefer the more playful one.

I began to invent "My Toy Life" "My Toy Husband" "My Toy House" as a way of dealing with this diminutive sense of our world, and realized that in the end, under late capitalism, our choices are consumer choices -- Mac or PC, Verizon or Sprint, Nike or Adidas?

green elitism

Lewis Black ranted about it on Comedy Central...celebrities are tryiing to convince us that they can save the world by preaching about their virtuous green lifestyles...Consumerism as the way to liberation, consumerism as the path to political solidarity. Of course they tell us that while we're buying our bamboo shirts, we should be writing to our congressmen, but why is shopping green so much more fun than political analysis -- restriction of Hummers on the streets and more stringent exhaust regulations would go a lot further than my changing my incandscent bulbs to fluorescent (which I am doing anyway)....but I hate being told by Richard Gere and supermodels that they take army showers! It's the new holiness, the new virtue! And check out Treehugger where you can get many ideas for eco-conscious shopping sprees.