There is a new SOL post

There is a new Super Ordinary Living Post, wherein we learn how to Interpret Corporate Responses.  Exciting and Educational.  That look on Mr. Chairman's face says, "Go Check It Out!" (just in case you didn't know.)

Gotta Fly.  And you have Clicking to do!

Brand Name or Generic

I feel decanted, like a pharmaceutical product.
Perhaps in my youth, or some long lost (never was) Eden of the past
We were at least deposited together en mass into one large America bottle
Like aspirins—all manufactured by the same machine, but together, rubbing shoulder to shoulder in daily contact with our fellow citizens.
But today, or at least in what passes for the present moment,
We, in our desire for disinfected security, find ourselves living in sterile blister packs
Separated from our fellows by individually-sanitized-for-our-protection bubble wrap
We can go for days, weeks, months or years without any real contact with other people.
We catch glimpses of each other through the plastic film that divides us
And we do not get each other dirty.
We do not contaminate each other.
Only the corporate broadcasts get in
Because each individual serving of consumer comes with screens:
LCD, plasma, TV, film, cell phone, game boy, iPod, computer, everywhere we look
We have been wrapped in screens, filmy plastic screens
And the broadcasts are the software within which we learn how to function
We learn to function as good corporate citizens, consumers first and last
But everything we purchase, everything we touch in this plastic bubble
Is just another screen swimming with software
We are so used to the corporate environment that we don’t even notice it
Like fish do not think about water
We swim in corporations, eat corporate products, shit corporate shit, love corporation love, speak in corporate language, argue corporate arguments, dream corporate dreams
We even die corporate deaths
The fact that I am saying this does not mean for one corporate minute that I am somehow above it all, immune or inoculated.
I am just as corporate as you as I tap on my corporate keys
Broadcasting words on my corporate blog
To be displayed on your corporate screen
It is just the way it is
It is the way we have chosen to incorporate
But the smell of plastic gets to me once in a while

Paper or plastic?

Brand Name or Generic?

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Credits: Rant and Collage by Jay Larsen, Inc. LLC

Chamber Kicks Sand In Our Face

Holy Elitist Scum, Batman!
The Chamber of Commerce, through its president, Tom Donohue, has just publically vowed to “punish anti-business candidates”. They spent over $60 million in the last presidential elections, and they promise to top that this time.
"We plan to build a grass-roots business organization so strong that when it bites you in the butt, you bleed," chamber President Tom Donohue said.

The Chamber is concerned about the “populist” tone of candidates. And Donahue and the Chamber are definitely not “populist”. They are very clear that they are “elitist”. They are here to support and defend the rights of the Corporate Elite, and sometimes they even forget to use their code words like, “pro-business” and “pro-economic growth”.

"I'm concerned about anti-corporate and populist rhetoric from candidates for the presidency, members of Congress and the media," he said. "It suggests to us that we have to demonstrate who it is in this society that creates jobs, wealth and benefits -- and who it is that eats them."

In advance of today's news conference, Donohue told The Times of his plans to be active in 140 congressional districts this year, as well as the presidential contest.

What that means is the Chamber will back GOP priorities and candidates.

This from the same group that fought to keep China from passing minimum wage and worker safety laws, because they would have been anti-business and only good for the population of China.

This from the same group that ran thousands of attack ads in elections across the country and then refused to say who had funded those ads.

The Chamber is a front group and Donahue is the attack dog for the corporate elite in this country who want to continue taking resources out of our Communities and putting them into the pockets of a handful of corporate shareholders. They want to ride on our backs, and they are willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to do it, because the result is billions of dollars in profits for them.

I guess we should be thrilled that the Elites as sooooooo scared of the populist message of candidates like John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich. We need to take some pride in the fact that even talking about loosening the grip of the Insurance Companies and the Oil Companies and the “Defence” (War) Companies on our Community resources and what should be our government has them so pissed off. But we can’t sit back and let these Elitist Bullies run the show. Last time I checked, the People outnumber these self-proclaimed “Elitists”.

Let’s Hear It for Populists!