Will Democrats Be Democrats, or Fraidy Cats?

March 2020

As an old saying puts it, “Where there’s a will – there are a thousand won’ts.” Sure enough, here come...

How wasteful is the Pentagon?

February 2020

Remember when candidate Trump promised not only to wall-out all migrants crossing our Mexican border, but also to make Mexico...

The amazing fall of Donald Trump’s wall

February 2020

Big, high walls can be troublesome. Ask Humpty Dumpty. However, for a real-life, epic story about wall troubles, ponder the...

The chicken sh*t lobby for corporate health care

February 2020

As Lyndon Johnson used to say about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation:...

Health care for people… or for corporate profits?

February 2020

When grassroots groups rise up against the corporate establishment to try winning some specific progressive changes for the common good,...

Should Democrats be the party of small change?

February 2020

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...

What’s scaring the bejeezus out of billionaires?

February 2020

There’s a new political army on the march in America: Tromp-tromp-tromp they came, it’s the Billionaire Brigade! It’s actually a...

Where can Trump find a Good Farm Policy?

February 2020

Donald Trump’s idea of a good farm program seems to be “Hee Haw.” On a recent trip to Wisconsin, he...

Sonny and Donnie: Down on the farm

February 2020

Government by the rich is called plutocracy. Government by police power is autocracy. Government by thieves is kleptocracy. Government by...

What’s the charitable thing to do about inequality?

January 2020

Our society has coined expressions like “philanthropist” to encourage and hail people’s charitable spirit. Look on the flip side of...

What’s the Weirdest Species of All?

January 2020

What’s the Weirdest Species of All? I love those nature shows that probe the behavior and intelligence of birds, elephants,...

What car do billionaires ride in?

January 2020

I’m guessing that being rich is a comfortable feeling – no money worries, you’re set for life! But is it...

How do the rich become uber-rich?

January 2020

As Ray Charles wailed in a song of true-life blues: “Them that’s got is them that gets/And I ain’t got...

America’s healthcare border raiders

January 2020

While Donald Trump fans the embers of xenophobia in our country by demonizing caravans of desperate Latinos headed north from...

The other Mexican migration

January 2020

You probably haven’t heard about it, but there’s another mass migration coming across the US-Mexico border. However, these are not...

How to get Congress to reform our broken healthcare system

January 2020

For $3.5 Trillion a year, shouldn’t we Americans have a world-class healthcare system? Yet, while we spend the most of any...

Is Healthcare more important than healthcare profits?

December 2019

Last year, Donald Trump said something stupid. Okay, nothing astonishing about that – but this stupid thing did astonish an...

Special gifts for special people

December 2019

Ho-Ho-Ho, wait till you hear about the gifts I gave to some of America’s power elites for Christmas. To each...

DADDY’S PHILOSOPHY

December 2019

This special day got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of...

Can “powerless nobodies” fight the corporate powers?

December 2019

Generations of working class shrimpers, oysterers, and other fishing families on the sparkling bays along the Texas coastline of the...

Should Democrats be the party of small change?

December 2019

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...

What’s scaring the bejeezus out of billionaires?

December 2019

There’s a new political army on the march in America: Tromp-tromp-tromp they came, it’s the Billionaire Brigade! It’s actually a...

How Trump’s poverty subsidy enriches the rich

December 2019

Breaking news: Donald Trump has inadvertently said something true! He recently exulted that his special tax incentives to spur investment...

How greedy billionaires become richer greedy billionaires

December 2019

Years ago, a Texas legislator who was known to be bribable explained his ethical framework as opportunistic: “I seen my...

Which food future will you choose?

November 2019

America certainly has an abundance of food (even though many Americans do not), yet we face a momentous choice of...