Review (Guest): The Utopia of Rules – on Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

David Gaeber A Fresh Take on Bureaucracy By Peter Richardson on March 19, 2015 What intense pleasure this book gave me, despite the dull topic: bureaucracy. Anthropologist David Graeber is perhaps best known for Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), which became required reading for the Occupy Wall Street movement. In that book, Graeber showed …

Review: Guerrilla Politician: The #1 Guide in America for 3rd Party Candidates

David Lory Vanderbeek 4.0 out of 5 stars Rough around the edges, useful starting point, March 12, 2015 This book is rough around the edges and overlooks prior works by others with the same level of patriotism and hard-earned experience. It is however very timely, very honest, very much on point, and I therefore recommend …

Review: Unstoppable – The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State

Ralph Nader 4.0 out of 5 stars Valentine for the Real Conservatives — Bland and Not Transformative, March 9, 2015 Positive up front: reading a book by another person is like getting a few hours of their time to yourself, so any book by Ralph Nader is a substantive value to anyone interested in ethics …

Review (Guest): Unstoppable – The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State

Ralph Nader This is Both an Accurate and a Useful Treatise, But …?, October 25, 2014 By Herbert L Calhoun “paulocal” … the accurate part is not very useful and the useful part is not very accurate. Allow me to explain by beginning with the accurate part of the book first. Using his considerable experiences …

Review (Guest): Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public

Steven M. Drucker A meticulously documented account of corporate influence overriding sound science at the U.S. FDA By n brown on March 7, 2015 Author Steven Druker raises an interesting parallel between computer systems and genetic manipulation. While computer systems – especially those that are life-dependent and life-sustaining – are carefully tested and retested to …

Review: On Marx

EDIT: I have placed in bold the paragraph everyone is missing. Alan Ryan 5.0 out of 5 stars Gem of a Book, Author’s Synthesis is Priceless, March 6, 2015 I picked this up at Powell’s Bookstore in Portland (10 times bigger than Tattered Cover in Denver, both worth going out of your way to visit) …