DEMOCRACY V. ZIP CODE 10021 May 2007The most popular zip code in America for politicians is 10021. This is the Upper East Side of Manhattan, home...
WANTED: WAR CZAR April 2007An unusual help-wanted ad has come out of Washington. It reads: WANTED: Full-time turnaround specialist to take charge of large...
ROMNEY GOES HUNTING… FOR VOTES April 2007When George Romney ran for president in 1968, he opposed the war in Vietnam. When it came out that he’d...
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR BEES? April 2007Bees are dying. Dying all across America. Lots and lots of bees. Starting in Florida last fall, the great bee...
SHORTCHANGING OUR HURRICANE WATCH CENTER April 2007With Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and the Walter Reed hospital scandal – maybe you thought that the incompetence of the Bushites...
STEALING AMERICA'S MIDDLE-CLASS April 2007It’s only 3,400 workers that Circuit City booted out the door, so what’s the big deal? Well, it’s not the...
THE STENCH OF CORPORATE WELFARE April 2007Big corporations seems to be doing awfully well these days, scooping up record profits, getting massive tax breaks from the...
THE INVADERS FROM AFAR April 2007Like something from a 1950s horror movie [eerie music], they came from afar, wriggling into our waterways, endangering our very...
TELL FDA WHAT YOU THINK! April 2007Would you like your eggs poached, fried, boiled… or irradiated? If the Bushites get their way, producers of some eggs,...
Circuit City's "Wage Management" Scam April 2007Corporations keep inventing Orwellian words of newspeak to disguise the nastiness of their continuous job cuts. For example, instead of...
WAL-MART HUGS DEMOCRATS April 2007Ah, it’s springtime in Washington… and corporate lobbyists are swarming everywhere! In fact, it seems that there are more lobbyists...
NYPD'S "INTELLIGENCE" April 2007Time for another Gooberhead Award [Beaniecap Breakdown] – presented periodically to those in the news who have their tongues going...
WHY MEDIA COMPANIES GET NO RESPECT April 2007Call me quaint and old-fashioned, but aren’t reporters supposed to be watchdogs for the public interest – rather than lapdogs...
A WASTEFUL, SILLY, DANGEROUS POLICE ACTION April 2007If you happen to be a New York City taxpayer, you might want to ask for a rebate, because city...
THE REALITY OF BUSH'S SURGE April 2007Here he comes again – the Cheerleader-in-Chief! George W, who was a cheerleader at Yale, is doing back flips and...
COONEY'S EDITING PENCIL April 2007Philip A. Cooney, we salute you for your government service! By “we”, I don’t mean me, and probably not you,...
INESCAPABLE TV ADS April 2007I yearn for the good ol’ days when a TV was a device under my control. It sat quietly in...
NEWT'S FAMILY VALUES April 2007Thank you, Newt Gingrich! A grateful nation rises in gratitude for the moral example that you provide to our youth!...
ROPING IN CEO PAY April 2007Among rank and file workers of major corporations, “CEO” is a four-letter word. That might not surprise you, but how...
BE STRONG, FOR OUR LEADERS ARE WEAK April 2007We are now in the fifth year of the Bushites’ grand adventure in Iraq. Let’s assess. More than 3,200 of...
TOM'S PATHETIC MEMOIR April 2007What’s that long, low, pathetic whine I hear? Wait, I think I recognize the tone. Why, yes, it’s him… Tom...
GARBLED TRANSLATIONS March 2007The only D grade I got in college was in my French class. I should’ve gotten an F, but I...
GEORGE IN FANTASY LAND March 2007George W has so many fantasies that they’re even affecting the First Lady’s grasp of reality. Laura Bush recently castigated...
DISNEY'S THUGGISHNESS March 2007The old theme song for the “Disneyland” TV show had a sweet uplifting message: “When you wish upon a star/...
ANOTHER WAR IN IRAQ March 2007Ready for Bush’s next war in Iraq? Already our troops are fighting both Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias in their...
