There’s a reoccurring foreboding in many
fairytales, that says: magic comes with a price. The Evil Queen that offered
Snow White the poisonous apple received her comeuppance in the end, and hopefully Orbitz
will be served a does of the same, when the traveling public learns
that Mac users are charged more than those using Windows. Yes, in this
case, you can think of Orbitz
as the Evil Queen! And the 30 percent higher rates they are offering to
Apple device owners, the fruits from their poisonous tree.
In an alternate universe somewhere, the Father of Obamacare might have
actually had a shot at becoming the next president of the United States,
had he just stuck to his guns. Because on Planet Earth, the candidate
responsible for this
accomplishment is not Obama. Obama cannot take credit for inventing the
Affordable Care Act. It was ironically his opposition who laid the
groundwork in Massachusetts, and then decided to take the wrong fork
in the road to diminish its application for the nation.
For those addicted to the HBO hit series "Game of Thrones," could you
imagine if those vying for the thrones of the Seven Kingdoms were
competing with Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on today’s
political landscape. The Mother Jones
news team postulates how today’s dirty politics might be played out if
Daenerys Targaryen, Jeffrey Baratheon and Robb Stark were added to the presidential race in contention for leader of the free world.
“A Blue Work Shirt” from OSPOP is an updated version of the no-nonsense, long-lasting tops that clothed Mao Zedong’s China of the 1950s through 1970s. Proudly made in China but not just for Chinese anymore, A Blue Work Shirt salutes those who made the Great Leap Forward from shattered post-war China to today’s economic powerhouse.
Why advertise a product, band or sports franchise on your t-shirt when Japan’s Ito Manufacturing offers an expensive, expressive & eccentric alternative? “Seek & Destroy” t-shirts in Grass Green and Cloud Gray plug you into a rarefied region of social consciousness where mass market consumerism takes a back seat to a black cat with heat-vision.