All Posts Tagged With: "editorial commentary"

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NASA Meets Trash, and a Poetic Moment on Trash With Shel Silverstein

News Flash

In an attempt to solve the world waste problem, U.S. Congress, in a bipartisan moment, has voted to commission the U.S. Space Program to develop a method for shooting our garbage completely off the planet.
Where it goes once it’s off the planet, well, no one really cares.
 

OK, I’m joshing ya. But I wonder […]

18Jun2008 | User ImageLisa | 1 comment | Continued
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Tyson Chicken Caught Making False Antibiotic-Free Claims

Still another blatant example of marketing deliberately meant to mislead and take advantage of consumers.

After being brought to court by competing companies, and losing their subsequent appeal, Tyson has agreed to voluntarily stop labeling their chicken products as” free of antibiotics.”
Competitors claim the Tyson ads untrue because:

Tyson injects it eggs with antibiotics, and
uses antibiotic […]

3Jun2008 | User ImageLisa | 2 comments | Continued
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Does Your Lawn Really Need to Look Like Astroturf?

 
 
My grandfather was named the neighborhood “lawn manicurist.” I don’t think he particularly enjoyed the title. It was a little,um, feminine, for him.
 
 
 
And I don’t think the neighbors particularly enjoyed his lawn. It wasn’t the lawn itself - even though it rivaled Fenway Park’s turf - if […]

23May2008 | User ImageLisa | 5 comments | Continued
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Ten Little Known Money Facts For Around the Water Cooler

Here’s a few shockers on money. At first they surprised me, and then, after I thought about it, they didn’t surprise me at all!
 
 
 
 
“I know nut-ting! NUT-TING”
 
 

Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees makes more money than the entire Florida Marlins team. - San Diego Union, 4/2/08
 
 
 
 
Trash into Cash(ABC News, May, 2004)-
“Pornography […]

3May2008 | User ImageLisa | 2 comments | Continued