Hope Has Never Trickled Down,

Why Would We Build As Unequal A Renewable Energy Sector As We Have Built A Fossil Fuel Sector? The Nice Thing About Renewables Is They're Everywhere, So You Don't Have To Have Monopoly Control In The Same Way.

And If There Is One Thing We Can Be Sure Of, It’s That Extreme Weather Events Like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan In The Philippines, And The British Floods—disasters That, Combined, Pummeled Coastlines Beyond Recognition, Ravaged Millions Of Homes, And Killed Many Thousands—are Going To Keep Coming.

I See The Gap Ads As Being A Great Example Of How Branding Has Changed. Those Gap Campaigns Are Pop Culture. They've Been Incredibly Powerful. They Have Had The Kind Of Effect On Culture That A Hit Band Has. Just Look At The Gap's Khaki Swing Ads, Which Were Music Videos. They Had This Tremendous Impact On The Industry - Suddenly Everything Started Looking Like Gap Ads And It Became Difficult To Know Who Was Co-opting Whom And Who Was Creating Culture.

There's A Property In Panama Where Trump Has Collected Somewhere Around $30 Million Just From Selling His Name To This Property - It's Somewhere Between $30 Million And $50 Million. It Would Be So Easy For A Developer To Slap On An Extra $6 Million To A Trump Licensing Deal And Have That Be A Backdoor Bribe. Who Are We To Say What That Is Worth? It's So Ephemeral. And This Is The Appeal Of Selling Something As Ephemeral As A Brand Name, Is That It Can Be Inflated Beyond All Reason.

I Think This Has Been A Class War Waged By The Rich Against The Poor, And I Think That They Won. And I Think The Poor Are Fighting Back.