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Is Facebook a necessary evil? Or does it just take enough people who are secure enough in their own self-worth to reject the vanity exercise of needing to seek validation of their lives through “likes” and instead choose to #DeleteFacebook in order to take this flawed corporation down a peg or two? Either way, there’s no question that Facebook can be a toxic wasteland of narcissism and vitriol. I mean,…

theLeftAhead contributor Daniel Watts launched a new web venture yesterday. Regular readers of this blog know that theLeftAhead regularly features underground poltical music and that theLeftAhead has extensively discussed and particpated in the Occupy movement. ROCCUPY.FM is a venture that we believe regular readers of theLeftAhead will enthusiastically support. We are proud to present to our readers the newest web venture in the M7 family tree… ROCCUPY.FM is a fusion…

This past Tuesday night was a downer. Instead of enjoying one of my favorite nights of the year by ordering pizza, plopping down on the couch, and watching the opening night of a new NBA season on television, I was twiddling my thumbs. I was actually catching up on some work, but it was totally depressing to know that I should have been enjoying the NBA tip off. Last Tuesday…

More Info: http://www.toms.com/corporate-info/ TOMS is a bright example of philanthropy, but is not a non-profit or a charity; nope, it is a for-profit corporation. Only this corporation has a unique twist: it has branded itself as a socially conscious organization. Now, many corporations do this sort of ‘branding’, but not quite like this; TOMS socially conscious branding is front and center of their brand rather than some side-story product of…