Robert Reich presents his version of The Corporate Pledge Of Allegiance.

But, hey, if the Supreme Court and regressive Republicans insist big corporations are people and want to treat them as American citizens, then why not demand big corporations take a pledge of allegiance to the United States?

I think that we are all missing a detail.  The Supreme Court decided that corporations are people.  Did they decide that they are American citizens?

Maybe we should have rules on how a corporation earns U.S. citizenship.  Do they get automatic citizenship if they are born in this country?  If they are not U.S. citizens, are they banned from influencing our elections?  If they are not citizens but lobby our government, do they have to register as foreign agents?

The Supreme Court may rue the day they based their opinion on a silly syllogism.

WikiPedia has an explanation of syllogisms.

A syllogism  is a kind of logical argument in which one proposition (the conclusion) is inferred from two or more others (the premises) of a certain form.

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The vast majority of the 256 possible forms of syllogism are invalid (the conclusion does not follow logically from the premises).

I leave it up to the reader to figure out exactly what kind of syllogism the Supreme Court used and to determine if it is one of the 24 valid ones.

Greg Palast Tracks the Predatory Vultures of the 1%: A Truthout Interview is with the author of the new book “Vultures’ Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores”

The interview has little gems like:

US media, Murdoch’d and bought, locks me out. But it’s not about me: it’s that they ignore and bury the facts that I uncover. Did Anderson Cooper tell you that BP had a blow-out, nearly identical to the one in the Gulf two years earlier in the Caspian Sea? Of course not, that would require him reporting the news instead of repeating the news.

and this one:

I mention that my Uncle Max, a mobster who competed with Capone (and lost) used to say, “The perfect crime is the one that’s legal.” I got my hands on the private emails of Timmy Geithner to Larry Summers, several confidential documents from inside the IMF [International Monetary Fund] and World Trade Organization and these things smoke. It’s the secret program for kicking the crap out of any national government (Brazil is their main target) that dares to stand in the way of the banks-turned casinos.