Millions of Americans are kept from voting August 2001When he was a U.S. senator many years ago, Oklahoma’s Bob Kerr would occasionally express amazement at some bit of...
A modest proposal for the senate democrats July 2001“The Democratic Party of the nation ain’t dead,” said New York political operative George Washington Plunkett at the turn of...
Uncovering a cover-up of chemical killers June 2001Bruce King, the former governor of New Mexico, once said with alarm: “We don’t want to open a box of...
Wall street is out to conquer 31 countries May 2001Open wide . . . here comes another great big glob of globaloney that the Powers That Be want to...
We can bring power back to the people April 2001Ronald Reagan, bless his perpetually wagging head, had a childlike devotion to the notion that “deregulation” was the castor oil...
Bush Inc. brings back Star Wars March 2001It is said that if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. But...
Bush incorporated is open for business February 2001Greetings can be quite unique around the world. I’m told that New Zealand’s Maori tribesmen rub noses when they meet,...
Why not try democracy in america? January 2001t took more than a month, but the Powers That Be finally tallied the presidential vote: Bush 5, Gore 4....
The missing 100 million presidential ballots December 2000Not all computer errors involve the counting of votes in Florida. Writing in Funny Times, language maven Richard Lederer tells...
Let’s builld a politics that gives us a real chance November 2000Well’here we are. After two years, half a billion bucks, a forest of press releases, a tsunami of polling data,...
When polluters challenge, al gore backs down October 2000It’s an article of faith among the Democrats-for-Gore set that, whatever faults Al may have (his own mother describes him...
Our privacy rights are being sold, stolen and stripped August 2000To get a job these days, chances are you’ll have to pee in a bottle. Your intimate medical history can...
Our tax billions go to losing a war in Colombia July 2000See if this sounds at all familiar to you: In a faraway land, a civil war has been raging for...
The Democrats sell out the middle class over China June 2000As Pancho Villa lay dying, he suddenly realized his followers would expect some memorable last words from him. But he...
Nader’s slugging it out with the party duopoly May 2000As most of us know by now, the Republicrat two party duopoly is squeezing the life out of our democratic...
Where have all the issues gone? April 2000Well, there we have it: Gore-Bush. Dull versus dullard. The political establishments of the two-party duopoly successfully rose up to...
Crime in the suites March 2000There’s a crime wave underway in America, but the Powers That Be are getting sore necks from looking the other...
Election 2000 already decided! big money’s guy wins it! February 2000The quadrennial presidential horse race is on, and the media establishment has unleashed its army of pundits, pollsters, powdered anchors,...
The seattle tea party January 2000Getting the diverse parts of a people’s political movement together and moving in the same direction at the same time...
Go, Granny, Go! December 1999Bo Pilgrim is a big-time chicken processor in East Texas, but he wasn’t known to the average Texan until he...
Bill Bradley talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk November 1999Mark Twain once said, “Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.” I’ve been...
American ceos are wallowing in wealth October 1999Imagine it. A world in which you, the average American worker, gets a princely $110,000 a year for your efforts....
How they took the care out of our health care system September 1999David Lubar is the author of a funny Q&A piece about HMOs that has made the rounds on the Internet....
How .05% of Americans buy our elections August 1999How many pockets does a political candidate have? As many as it takes. In recent years, the tailors have been...
What’s for dinner? July 1999Have you heard of the ‘Butterfly Effect?’ Both a scientific concept and an ecological reality, its essence is that the...
