Amazingly, America has become a nation of socialists, asking in dismay: "Where's the government?"
These are not born-again Bernie Sanders activists, but everyday people of all political stripes (including pr... Read more...
One word in particular, one sound, one horror that I can’t get out of my head is this: George Floyd crying out “momma,” as his life was cruelly and senselessly crushed in yet another brutal, White-on-Black murd... Read more...
Times of great adversity not only bring out the best and worst in society, but they also flush out some of the stinkiest and slimiest creatures. Think of war profiteers... or hucksters who prey on poor hurrican... Read more...
Charles Dickens, writing about the inequality and social turmoil leading to the French Revolution, noted that "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
So it is today, with the horrific COVID-19... Read more...
What's the Weirdest Species of All?
I love those nature shows that probe the behavior and intelligence of birds, elephants, and other fellow creatures.
However, there's one exotic critter the shows have i... Read more...
Our society has coined expressions like "philanthropist" to encourage and hail people's charitable spirit.
Look on the flip side of that shiny coin of generosity, however, and you'll find that its base subst... Read more...
There's a general sentiment today that multimillionaire corporate chieftains are pigs. But I think that's unfair. To pigs. Those oinkers are remarkably intelligent animals with a sense of social responsibility ... Read more...
Monty Bennett was just another faceless right-wing millionaire on the long list of high-dollar donors to Donald Trump – until he suddenly surfaced in April as the nation's biggest bagger of government cash in t... Read more...
Here's how I feel about the value of our nation's postal service: "The humble Post Office is a community fixture, a civic inheritance, a rural lifeline, and one of the last vestiges of a shared civic culture in... Read more...
One thing we've learned for sure this year is that no national crisis is too awful to keep Trump & Company from exploiting it for their plutocratic political purposes.
COVID-19 is a God-Awful crisis, but... Read more...
