by Sarah Cowgill | Mar 21, 2021 | Articles, Culture Rot, Good Reads
The Hasbro toy company’s self-flagellation has gone from mildly amusing to downright irritating and, frankly, it seems somewhat irrational. On the heels of last week’s declaration that Mr. Potato Head was now just an androgenous tuber instead of a masculine spud, the...
by Sarah Cowgill | Sep 15, 2019 | Articles, Culture Rot, Politics, Social Issues, The Left
In a landmark case of jumping on the women-are-people-too bandwagon, toymaker Hasbro is rolling out a trendy version of the iconic board game, Monopoly, that penalizes male players from the first roll of the dice. It’s catchily called Ms. Monopoly, and despite it...
by Andrew Moran | Aug 5, 2019 | Articles, Business News, Economic Affairs News
The term “monopoly” is back in the news again after Facebook announced that its subsidiaries, Instagram and WhatsApp, will soon sport a “by Facebook” brand. The social media juggernaut aims to make it “clearer about the products and services that are part of...
by Mark Angelides | Apr 23, 2018 | Narrated News, Privacy & Tech
Despite near-constant media frenzy that the freedom of the internet will dissolve in a bubbling mass of Trump Tweets and websites owned by white people as April 23rd arrives, it demonstrates not just a failure of research, but also a fundamental misunderstanding of...
by Andrew Moran | Sep 22, 2017 | Economic Affairs News
Sprint and T-Mobile are in active negotiations about a potential merger, according to sources close to the situation. Both sides have been engaging in talks since August, but the executives have remained relatively silent on the matter, leading many analysts fear that...