Question: What does a packet of M&M’s and your local veterinarian have in common? Answer: Both are owned by Mars...
For many people, the animals they adopt and love become more like family members than pets. We have deep relationships,...
What is so supreme about the Supreme Court? I mean besides being housed in an imposing marble building, being the...
Ralph Waldo Emerson told about a guest who came to dinner and spent the entire evening prattling about his own...
Keep On Trucking’ was an iconic underground cartoon created in 1968 by comic master Robert Crumb. Featuring various big-footed men...
The recent traffic-clogging protests by truck drivers in the US and Canada is about drivers being angry over COVID-19 vaccine...
Right-wing Republicans and corporate Democrats have become a pathetic bunch of “No-can-do Nancys.” Faced with an economy reeling from the...
Let’s talk pills. To treat everything from allergies to heart problems, half of Americans take a prescription medicine every day,...
In CorporateSpeak, there are no “job cuts.” Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.” Now, though, corporate wordsmiths...
Since organizing isn’t a one-and-done deal, the Chat & Chew crew wanted to re-connect with a few of the incredible...
Hunters have come up with euphemisms to make what they do sound… well, less unpleasant. For example, animals aren’t killed,...
Last July, several GOP senators combined their 5-watt intellects to charge that inflation was rising because of the “insane tax...
Republican politicos are all over Joe Biden for failing to stop inflation. Perhaps you wonder, though, what these squawkers would...
Our local newspapers are being merged, purged, shrunk, shut down, and looted by Wall Street profiteers – yet there’s good...
Mega-investor Warren Buffett once held a big portfolio of daily and weekly newspapers, and he specialized in squeezing out competitors...
The rich are different from you and me. For one thing, they’re rich. Among the super-rich, though, there tends to...
Many Americans can’t believe that political coups are part of our country’s history – but consider from the Wall Street...
Corporate CEOs are mostly sedentary, well-heeled money people who would hardly be considered athletic. Yet, every now and then a...
Everyone’s feeling the strain of inflation, but what’s the real story underneath those jacked-up prices? Spoiler alert: corporate greed! It...
In this year’s Beijing Olympics, the top team performance has been Corporate America’s breathtaking “Double-twist Ethical Backflip.” This group of...
Suddenly, “social distancing” is our new national etiquette, abruptly supplanting handshakes, hugs, gatherings, and other forms of ingrained communal behavior...
In this horrible time of economic collapse, it is truly touching to see so many corporate chieftains reaching out in...
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...
For $3.5 Trillion a year, shouldn’t we Americans have a world-class healthcare system? Yet, while we spend the most of...
Our society has coined expressions like “philanthropist” to encourage and hail people’s charitable spirit. Look on the flip side of...