Let workers vote on CEO's pay December 2014One difference between top executives and worker bees, is that those at the top can lower the pay of those...
A corporate power grab is underway, so where's the media? December 2014If you need a good, doable New Year’s resolution, try this: “I resolve to do my part this year to...
State legislatures are helping rich lenders rip-off the poor December 2014Loan sharks and their lobbyists really know how to put the “ick” in eth-icks. Though they’ve tried to buff-up their...
Why won't the CIA even say the word "torture"? December 2014The spooks are spooked. Not by anything that foreign enemies might do to America – but by what our CIA...
The explosive greed of Americas 0.01-percenters December 2014In this season of mass commercialism, let’s pause to consider the plight of simple millionaires. Astonishingly, they’re being abandoned by...
The pain of inequality among yacht buyers December 2014In the spirit of holiday harmony and good will toward all, I say it’s time for you working stiffs (and...
The endless farce of the GOPs Benghazi joyride December 2014It got messy in a hurry when a bunch of cocksure right-wing joyriders began screeching recklessly around a dicey political...
Chris Christie's pig problem December 2014As the weather turns colder in this month of Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza, and the Winter Solstice, our hearts grow warmer...
The Benghazi investigation – a zombie that won't die December 2014Like a dog chewing a bone down to nothing, congressional right-wingers have been gnawing on the so-called “scandal” of Benghazi...
Trying to teach ethics to congress critters December 2014Do you – or anyone – really need a book of rules and a three-hour briefing on ethics in order...
Mitch's minimum-wage glitch December 2014Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wanted to share his long-repressed feelings about a traumatic event. “It was,” Mitch confided, grim-faced,...
GOP doubles down on fear & loathing of Latino immigrants December 2014Gosh, has it been two whole years since Republican leaders vowed to reach out to Latino voters with “a more...
Militarists mire America deeper in Afghan war December 2014Only a few months ago President Obama announced the good news that our combat role in Afghanistan – the longest...
Avoid Amazon's "Cyber Monday," and buy local December 2014It’s “Cyber Monday” – get out there and buy stuff! But you don’t actually have to go anywhere, for this...
Obama's Thanksgiving pardon of Republican turkeys November 2014Thanksgiving – a time of grace and family sharing – will get an extra bit of grace from the White...
Buy local beer, books… and why not seafood? November 2014In case you don’t have enough to worry about, consider “early mortality syndrome.” Sounds gruesomely lethal, doesn’t it? Luckily, this...
Obama's Thanksgiving pardon of Republican turkeys November 2014Thanksgiving – a time of grace and family sharing – will get an extra bit of grace from the White...
America's good food movement November 2014What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country’s food rebels! I’m talking about the growing movement of small farmers,...
The Walmartizaton of Thanksgiving November 2014Everyone from the Obama family in the White House to my little family in Texas will take a deserved pause...
Wall Street speculators are walling off young farmers November 2014Gabillionaires who invest in hedge funds generally have the ethical and aesthetic sensibilities of dirt clods. As far as they...
Synthetic food: Our future doesn't taste good November 2014Armed with hefty grants from the Pentagon, squads of corporate and governmental food technologists are on a mission to supplant...
Let workers vote on CEO's pay November 2014One difference between top executives and worker bees, is that those at the top can lower the pay of those...
Validating Marriott's low-wage exploitation November 2014As an old popular song asks, what do you get if you “work your fingers right down to the bone?”...
A General tells the truth about the lies of war November 2014In 1918, reflecting on World War I, Sen. Hiram Johnson said: “The first casualty when war comes is truth.” Actually,...
Wall Street sodbusters reap farm profits November 2014We know from the childhood song that Old McDonald had a farm – but e-i-e-i-o – look who’s got his...
