The corporation = one of the best documentaries ever.

I first watched The Corporation
when it was first shown around, at the Minneapolis Film Fest, with the producers and the director. The Corporation
could be termed a forensic personality profile of the American Corporation, but I viewed it as an insightful ethnography of the most important tribe to emerge in human history. The most important, and the most dangerous tribe. In fact, I showed The Corporation as an ethnography in my anthropology classes a number of times.

Here is Part I:

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This is a press release they just sent out about the effort to undo the absurd idea that "corporations are people, my friend":
Corporal punishment in America’s public schools seems like a relic of the past — a practice we had surely banned long ago. The reality, however, is that it’s perfectly legal to physically discipline students as young as preschoolers in 19 states.
I'll have a post tomorrow about the Republican opposition to S-CHIP, a federally-funded health insurance program. While writing the post, a question occurred to me:
At the time of complicated economic and financial news, I am reminded that the economic system and the financial system are quite separate in this country.