Tag: Rants
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Dolphins: Dying to Entertain You
Throughout Playa Del Carmen and Cancun, the streets are lined with pushy vendors promising tourists an amazing swim-with-the-dolphins (SWTD) experience. A decent looking woman smiles on a sign behind a dealer, and appears as though she is making a connection with the grey-skinned creature swimming close to her. Vacationers are quick to hand over their…
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Is China-made Becoming the American Way?
Thanks to powerful marketing strategies, material items are popular among Americans, especially at a cheap price. But who is paying the price for our consuming ways? Targeted consumers are victims of American corporations that wish to maximize their profit margins by outsourcing higher-paying jobs. Corporations like Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart, in nearly every city…
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Down To Yurt
A family vacation turns out to be quite the experience. We drove up the snake-like road that hugged the fuzzy mountainside toward the Rattle Snake Canyon wildlife reservation. The soft, rolling hills stood like grassy ant piles around us in varies shades of green. The brush was thin and the wind constantly robust. A large…
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Creative Junk Mail
These days, banks and credit card companies are on everyone’s shit list. Not only are these companies charging outrageous fees and receiving bailouts; they waste paper and trees by sending us countless pieces of junk mail. This leads me to ask the question: Why not mail their pre-paid envelopes back to them? “Why,” you ask?…
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