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South Park’s ‘A History Channel Thanksgiving’ And The Problems With For-Profit Education

January 7, 2012Erik Kain

South Park lampoons Thor, the History Channel, and for-profit colleges all at once in its latest Thanksgiving special. I’m catching up on the last season of South Park and we watched A History Channel Thanksgiving last night which is a brilliant spoof of several things all at once. It’s most obviously a spoof of the […]

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Arts & Entertainment, byline=E.D. Kain, Culinary art, DeVry University, For-profit school, history, History Channel, Human Ingenuity, Kyle, Lifestyle, South Park, Tech, Thanksgiving, University of Phoenix

Don’t Tax Black Friday

November 25, 2011Erik Kain

I suspect that at the heart of Robert Frank’s New York Times piece about ending the Black Friday madness rests two things: first, a sense that such overt consumerism is the hallmark of capitalism and that capitalism is somehow morally insufficient; and second, a distaste for the aesthetic of Black Friday – all those plebes […]

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Best Buy, Black Friday, budget deficit, Business, byline=E.D. Kain, Consumerism, Economics, free markets, Herman Cain, iPhone, Leadership, New York Times, Robert Frank, Spending, Thanksgiving, Walmart

Nothing to Be Thankful for in the Euro-Zone

November 24, 2011Erik Kain

The leaders of Germany, France and Italy are set for a debate about the European Central Bank’s role in region debt crisis and on how to align eurozone economic policies. It’s difficult to be thankful of the global economy this Thanksgiving, and nowhere is that more true than in the parts of the world that […]

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Business, byline=E.D. Kain, European Central Bank, European sovereign debt crisis of 2010–present, Eurozone, France, German, Germany, Leadership, Spain, Thanksgiving

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