How to Guarantee a Train Wreck

Stuff happens, right? I mean, who could’ve thought that in these modern times of digital monitoring of everything, something as...

Love to You from Valentine, Texas

Please be my Valentine! That is not only a warm, sweet, sometimes romantic sentiment people express in mid-February on a...

Prevaricating for Profit

Why would anyone believe anything that a big corporation tells us? Corporate powers use lies as a core element of...

How Inequality Happens

High-dollar corporate executives and Wall Street bankers keep telling us that it’s lonely at the top. Well, they should try...

2022: The Year of the Workers

‘Tis the season of gift giving – including Time magazine handing out its somewhat pompous “Person of the Year” award....

The Madness of Sen. Joe Manchin

If you sometimes wonder whether Congress is obtuse, narcissistic, or just stupid, Sen. Joe Manchin is evidence that the answer...

What Does Congress Think of You?

Dick Tuck, a political prankster who made a satirical run for public office years ago, got less than 10 percent...

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