The mendacity of GMO purveyors October 2014Tenacity can be a virtue. But the persistent push by giant food conglomerates to deceive us consumers has turned their...
A gross purchase of GOP governors October 2014Perhaps you think that corporations use their campaign donations to buy politicians who then deliver public policies the corporate donors...
Validating Marriott's low-wage exploitation October 2014As an old popular song asks, what do you get if you “work your fingers right down to the bone?”...
GOP boo-boo reveals secret corporate donors October 2014Some people have a recurring nightmare of rising to give a speech, but realizing they know nothing about the topic...
Another nutty rant by another Texas goober October 2014In Texas, not all goobers are produced by peanut farmers. A bumper crop of some of our nuttiest goobers come...
Finding the money to fund higher education for all October 2014Question: Is making higher education available to every American more important to our national interest than letting Wall Street profiteers...
Wall Street sodbusters reap farm profits October 2014We know from the childhood song that Old McDonald had a farm – but e-i-e-i-o – look who’s got his...
Don’t shut the post office, expand their services September 2014What’s the matter with the post office? The US Postal Service, I mean – the corporate hierarchy that runs this...
Marriott's shameful hotel tipping scam September 2014Just when you thought the plutocratic profiteers running America’s exploitative, low-wage economy couldn’t get any more clueless, self-serving, pious, and...
McDonald's image problem September 2014Now here’s a dinner I wish I could’ve attended. According to Associated Press, it was an elegant evening of fine...
What if antibiotics no longer work? September 2014Can antibiotic medicines, long hailed as miracle drugs, be too much of a good thing? Yes. Two factors are at...
GOP to US infrastructure: All fall down September 2014I love groups with the gumption to take on big tasks and do what needs to be done – can-do...
Trying to pervert consumer protection into corporate protection September 2014The giants of food manufacturing are very concerned about you. They fear you could come down with a terrible plague...
The corporate purchase of America's political discourse September 2014When five Supreme Court justices decreed that corporations are entitled to full free speech rights in our elections and that...
A frightening cruise through Ted Cruz's head September 2014Let’s take another cruise down the narrow byways and around the twisting turns that form Sen. Ted Cruz’s mind. The...
Far from a loser, post office is a money-making operation September 2014One public service that people really like and count on is the post office – which literally delivers for us....
Help wash formaldehyde out of baby's hair September 2014Who says we’re not making progress in battling the senseless greed of corporate profiteers? Look at the big change won...
A Billionaire's sound advice to the Billionaire's Club September 2014Here’s an unusal über-rich guy with an unusual message for his fellow one-percent-of-the-one-percenters. Nick Hanauer, who made billions as an...
What job creation numbers don’t tell us September 2014Have you noticed that The Powers That Be employ an entirely different standard for measuring the health of America’s job...
Standing up to post office privatizers September 2014“Boss,” spelled backwards, is double-S-O-B, and that’s how most of the employees of the US Postal Service feel about their...
Mitch's minimum-wage glitch September 2014Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wanted to share his long-repressed feelings about a traumatic event. “It was,” Mitch confided, grim-faced,...
Cosmetic giants wage non-stop make-up war September 2014In the US alone, the cosmetics industry pulls in some $70 billion a year in sales of what’s commonly called...
Bezos buys a big piece of power September 2014An old cowboy aphorism says: “Speak the truth. But ride a fast horse.” From the 1970s into the 1990s, there...
"Tough Texas" wimps out in Pentagon giveaway September 2014I’m a dyed in the wool, fourth generation Texan, so let me just say that I am shocked and amazed,...
Let's turn Pope Francis loose on Wall Street September 2014Amazing! Some people who’ve long enjoyed a lifestyle of old-money elegance, are suddenly trying to downscale their lives and show...
