The chicken sh*t lobby for corporate health care January 2022As Lyndon Johnson used to say about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation:...
Alert: Kartoonus Americanus Is Going Extinct! January 2022Right before our eyes, an invaluable American species is fast disappearing from view. Kar-toon-us A-mer-i-kan-as. These are the newspaper cartoonists...
MOTHER NATURE LAWYERS UP: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Alexis Bunten & Samantha Skenandore January 2022The Lorax speaks for the trees in Dr. Seuss books, but who speaks for them in real life? A revolutionary...
Save the Whales! Save Polar Bears! Save Political Cartoonists! January 2022I never dreamed of growing up to be a political activist/ commentator, but here I am, and it’s worked out...
Jeff Bezos Reveals His Desiccated Soul January 2022The morning after December’s horrific nighttime tornado smashed a huge Amazon warehouse in Illinois, killing six workers, corporate CEO Jeff...
How Corporate Greed is Causing Tornado Deaths January 2022Corporate America has proudly elevated good moral values to a special place. That place is the trash can. Indeed, free...
What if antibiotics no longer work? January 2022Can antibiotic medicines, long hailed as miracle drugs, be too much of a good thing? Yes. Two factors are at...
A curse, a blessing, and a good food movement January 2022In 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaign that came close to getting the US Senate to reject Earl...
Daddy’s Philosophy December 2021This holiday season got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of...
Merry Christmas, right-wingers, The Red Pope, and Jesus December 2021Here’s a twist on Christmas that would make Jesus weep. First, a right-wing faction in the US has been wringing...
The Problem With Plastic… Is Plastic December 2021In a world that’s clogged and choking with a massive overdose of plastic trash, you’ll be heartened to learn that...
The Plasticization of Planet Earth December 2021What does your toothbrush, a fish dinner, and your running shoes have in common? Plastic. We now live on Planet...
LAUGHING MATTERS: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Zahra Noorbakhsh and Steve Skrovan December 2021Does the state of politics make you want to cry? Wait! There’s another way – and here at the Chat...
The Scam of Marketing Sports Stadiums as Corporate Billboards December 2021Advertising has been characterized as rattling a stick in a bucket – a noisy cry for public attention. One example...
“Team Greed” plays bigtime sports! December 2021‘Tis the season, right? Traditionally, this time of year celebrates spirituality and festivities – including Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa. In...
Making Work Work for Workers December 2021As a writer, I get stuck every so often straining for the right words to tell my story. Over the...
What’s the “Quits Rate?” And Why Is It Skyrocketing? November 2021Corporate bosses across America have been sputtering in outrage at you working stiffs this summer, spewing expletives about the fact...
Which food future will you choose? November 2021America certainly has an abundance of food (even though many Americans do not), yet we face a momentous choice of...
When and where was the first Thanksgiving Feast? November 2021Let’s talk Turkey! No, not the Butterball sitting in the Oval Office. I’m talking about the real thing, the big...
Once Again Congress Exposes Its Butt-Ugly Morality November 2021Sometimes, when watching Congress in action, I can’t decide whether to laugh, cry, or check myself into an insane asylum....
Why Did the Democrat Lose Virginia’s Gubernatorial Race? November 2021Here they come again – That gaggle of Washington politicos and pundits who keep assailing Joe Biden’s package of FDRish...
DINNER DEMOCRACY: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Tom Philpott & Raj Patel November 2021As we head towards Thanksgiving, our minds are all on one of our favorite topics: FOOD! What power do people...
Should Apple Profit By Blocking Our Consumer Rights? November 2021At least since the invention of the wheel, people have fixed, tinkered with, and improved every device they’ve possessed. It’s...
Repair Your Own Products? Corporations Say No! November 2021America’s economic and political inequality has led workaday Americans to exclaim: “The system is broken. Let’s fix it!” But there’s...
The Republican Supremes Are Defrocking Themselves November 2021What is so supreme about the Supreme Court? I mean besides being housed in an imposing marble building, being the...
