AMERICAN AIRLINE'S EXECUTIVE-SUITE GREED June 2007“From the onset,” says a mechanic at American Airlines, “I didn’t like the sound of that slogan they were throwing...
CORPORATE CREEPS BILK THE ELDERLY June 2007We’ve seen plenty of disgusting corporate behavior in our country – but surely there’s an unfathomably-hot part of hell being...
THE SEVENTEEN TRADITIONS June 2007My father taught me about progressive values. Not by sitting me down to explain them, but by living them. He...
THE OFF-SHORING OF LOCAL NEWS May 2007Here in Austin, Texas, a TV station fired its news director and didn’t replace him. Instead, the conglomerate owner decided...
THE STENCH OF CORPORATE WELFARE May 2007Big corporations seems to be doing awfully well these days, scooping up record profits, getting massive tax breaks from the...
COME ON, DEMOCRATS, SHAPE UP! May 2007Tell me it’s not so. Tell me that the headline I’m looking at is not true. It says: “Democrats Reluctant...
GOVERNEMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE BUSHITES May 2007In 2005, Ken Mehlman, one of George W’s top political advisors, addressed this thought to the federal goverment’s worker bees:...
VACATION ON WARMING ISLAND May 2007As summer approaches, families all across our country are making vacation plans. But some people get bored with the same...
A CHOCOLATE MESS May 2007Shouldn’t chocolate contain, you know… chocolate? By which I mean cocoa butter and solids, derived from the cacao tree, which...
THE SWEATSHOP LOBBY May 2007The corporate chorus sings with perfect harmony about the glories of globalization, insisting that all countries simply must re-write their...
SOFT ON BANK ROBBERY May 2007If you rob a bank, you’re looking at doing 10 to 20 years hard time. But what if a bank...
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING BUSH May 2007No wonder George W’s approval rating has fallen below that for Mad Cow disease – he keeps treating the public...
POOPING IN LUXURY May 2007I know some of you snooty people look down on us Texans – thinking we’re just rubes and riff-raff with...
PAULA DEEN, COOKING FOR SMITHFIELD May 2007You can’t get much syrupier or chirpier than Paula Deen. She’s the ebullient celebrity queen of Southern cooking, with a...
DECONSTRUCTING IRAQ'S RECONSTRUCTION May 2007George W keeps whining about it. “Buckshot” Cheney keeps growling about it. The “it” is the dastardly media’s scurrilous failure...
WHY IMPORT SO MUCH FOOD? May 2007People are upset. Their little Fidos and Fluffies are being poisoned by a chemical additive in pet food imported from...
WHO'S JOINING BUSH'S WAR? May 2007Remember the famous Army recruiting posters from World War II? They had a red-white-and-blue drawing of Uncle Sam pointing straight...
CEOs FIGHT CORPORATE DEMOCRACY May 2007Time for another Gooberhead Award – presented periodically to those in the news who have their tongues running 100-miles an...
GREEN FORD? May 2007Ford Motor Company executives say they are going to make environmentally-sustainable, fuel-efficient, green cars! Again. Not “again” in the sense...
SLAMMING THE DOOR ON IRAQI REFUGEES May 2007George W keeps talking about America’s moral responsibility to help the people of Iraq. So… why is he slamming America’s...
MORE CORPORATE WAR AGAINST WORKERS May 2007Chicken Little is loose again. Loose in the White House, the congress and corporate America. The Chicken Littles are crying...
BUSH'S ZIG-ZAG WAR POLICY May 2007Have you noticed? The Bushites’ zig-zagging military policy in Iraq has taken another zig. Or is it a zag? It’s...
EARTH DINNER May 2007What’s for dinner at your place? How about having an earth dinner? Not that you’d eat earth, but that you...
STAMPING OUT THE FREE PRESS May 2007At last, Washington officials are doing something about the problem of corporate control of America’s media sources. Unfortunately, what they’re...
LIFE IN IRAQ May 2007According to the “Dick and George Show,” broadcast daily from the White House, things are really looking up in Iraq....
