Category Archive: Social Issues

Non-Gatekept: It Does Not Elminate the Need For Editing

Non-gatekept.    It’s a very popular term among writers these days.    After years of having patiently sent query letters and self-addressed envelopes and done everything in their power to land a publishing… Read More

Book Review: Crash Course–The American Automobile Industry's Road From Glory To Disaster by Paul Ingrassia

Ron reviews Crash Course– a new book about the demise of the American auto industry by Paul Ingrassia

Book Review : Lost in the Meritocracy by Walter Kirn

The story of a man who went to school and college and learned how to drink and drug and lost most of what he knew. And learned only how to work the systems to look smarter than he was.

Book Review: How To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint by Joanna Yarrow

Way to reduce your carbon footprint in daily life.

America Unzipped : In Search of Sex and Satisfaction

An author investigates the “hidden sexual side” of Middle America. The changes the made middle Americans, more comfortable with their own sexuality and the “hidden” expressions of it.

Drinking Problems at the Fountain of Youth

A funny and scathingly accurate picture of the pressure on women “of a certain age” to look younger, and all the approaches, tricks and sales pitches they endure to shave years off of how old other people think they are.

Our Daily Meds : How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs

Our Daily Meds is a book which categorizes all the modern marketing that Big Pharma uses on all levels of the public to get them to buy their products. While Big Pharma says their largest cost is Research and Development, it’s actually Sales and Marketing that takes the bulk of their budgets

The Shameless Carnivore : A Manifesto for Meat Lovers

A book covering the moral, and ethical concerns over eating meat. As well as the author’s attempt to eat thirty one meats in thirty one days, and to eat all of the parts of a cow that the USDA considers fit for human consumption

Why Manners Matter:The Case For Civilized Behavior in a Barbarous World

Why good manners matter more as society gets more and more complex and people get more and more stressed.They also help impress one’s superiors as well

ASTRO BOY AND ANIME COME TO THE AMERICAS

A history of early anime by one of it’s true pioneers

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