I'm guessing that being rich is a comfortable feeling – no money worries, you're set for life!
But is it possible that too rich can be too much, even discombobulating? Imagine being Mark Zuckerberg, whose so... Read more...
As Ray Charles wailed in a song of true-life blues: "Them that's got is them that gets/And I ain't got nothin' yet."
While the workaday majority of Americans continue to be mired in our low-wage economy, the... Read more...
While Donald Trump fans the embers of xenophobia in our country by demonizing caravans of desperate Latinos headed north from Central America, there are other northern-bound caravans he doesn't mention.
Thes... Read more...
You probably haven't heard about it, but there's another mass migration coming across the US-Mexico border. However, these are not Central American families fleeing horrific conditions back home – only to be se... Read more...
For $3.5 Trillion a year, shouldn’t we Americans have a world-class healthcare system? Yet, while we spend the most of any advanced nation in the world to get care (more than $10,000 a year per person), we get ... Read more...
Last year, Donald Trump said something stupid.
Okay, nothing astonishing about that – but this stupid thing did astonish an entire nation, specifically Britain. Apparently, Trump had seen a Fox News report s... Read more...
Ho-Ho-Ho, wait till you hear about the gifts I gave to some of America's power elites for Christmas.
To each of our Congress critters, I sent my fondest wish that from now on they receive the exact same inco... Read more...
This special day got me to thinking about America's spirit of giving, and I don't mean this overdone business of Christmas gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving – giving of ourselves.
Yes, we are a country... Read more...
Generations of working class shrimpers, oysterers, and other fishing families on the sparkling bays along the Texas coastline of the Gulf of Mexico, have long shared the waterways with alligators and snakes tha... Read more...
We might expect that corporate billionaires and Koch-funded Republican right-wingers would be howl-at-the-moon opponents of a wealth tax, Medicare-for-All, and other big, progressive ideas to help improve the c... Read more...
