Archive for September, 2007


Welcome to the Health Police State
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Victor Margolin In the State of Michigan and almost twenty other states, it is legal to fire employees for smoking and even to penalize them financially if their insured spouses smoke or chew tobacco. The Weyco Company, a subsidiary of Meritain Health Michigan, conducts random testing on employees every three months to see if they [...]

Consuming the Commons
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Victor Margolin Throughout history, people of privilege have always believed that they could live as they liked. Whether Emperor Augustus, Louis XIV, or the CEO of a successful dot,com, wealthy folks have viewed the world as a source of goods and services to which they were entitled either by virtue of asymmetric power, wealth, or [...]