Millionaire Tax Dodgers

September 2012

It’s always refreshing to hear a multimillionaire tax dodger smugly disparage poor people who “pay no income tax.” Mitt Romney...

The price of a movie at Regal theaters

September 2012

Gosh, I feel so much safer now that teenage ticket takers at the Regal chain of movie theaters have been...

What's in our food? Fight for the right to know

September 2012

Food fight, everyone – let’s all join the fun! Actually, this is neither fun nor a fight that America’s consumers...

Top-paid CEOs to taxpayers: thanks a million!

September 2012

Some statements by corporate chieftains tickle my funny bone – but more often they torture my cynical bone. Take the...

Who wants our brave new robotic future?

September 2012

A message from our corporate-governmental-media establishment: Your future is on Mars. They’re referring to “Curiosity,” NASA’s lovable robot that’s now...

A banker's plaintive plea

September 2012

At last, someone has stood up for America’s downtrodden. I mean, of course, the downtrodden Wall Street banks. This defender...

Ryan runs into his inner truth

September 2012

In Lyndon Johnson’s colorful barnyard phrase, “You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken sh[bleep].” But Paul Ryan, the GOP’s...

Counter ALEC with ALICE

September 2012

Poor Alec just keeps bumbling, stumbling, and tumbling. You could feel sorry for such a hapless soul, except that this...

Romney's Hamm-handed energy policy

September 2012

Dick Cheney is known to snarl more than he smiles, but the former VP and ex-oil executive must be grinning...

Shouldn't we fix our nation's leaky roof?

September 2012

Congress’ boneheaded right-wing leaders keep insisting that our growing national needs must be sacrificed to their god of budgetary-whacking wackiness....

Even Romney's rallies are lies

September 2012

What a great media picture it made! Mitt Romney was at an Ohio rally, standing at a lectern with his...

A more genteel political corruption

September 2012

Not only does corporate political money shout, scream, bellow, and bay in our elections, but afterwards it quietly slips into...

Lubbock County Judge goes nuts

September 2012

While Rep. Todd Akin’s pseudo-scientific tommyrot about “legitimate rape” has surged him into the lead for the title of Dottiest...

Welcome to the GOP's Theological Nutland

September 2012

While it’s hard to fathom right-wing nuttiness, it’s sure not hard to find it these days. We saw it in...

The Dow has recovered, but what about "The Doug?"

September 2012

Happy Labor Day! And what a good day it is, for only five years after that ugly Wall Street collapse,...

Warning: A new intrusive swarm coming our way!

August 2012

Get ready, America, for here comes “the next latest and greatest thing in aviation.” Wow, what could it be? Maybe...

Where's the ethical balance of America's scales of justice?

August 2012

Is it really “fair and balanced”? I don’t mean the ridiculous Fox TV channel, whose right-wing ranters mock their own...

The Ryan-Romney flim-flam ticket

August 2012

Let’s talk budget! Yes, the wonky wonderland of the federal budget, with page after page of numbers – what fun,...

The spreading corporate crime wave

August 2012

Can it really be a surprise that four out of five Americans have little-to-zero trust in big banks, that 62...

The brand-new Mitt

August 2012

Among the higher hurdles that American marketing geniuses have tried (and failed) to leap were attempts to convince car buyers...

To save the tree, nurture the grassroots

August 2012

Washington keeps handing massive bailouts to Wall Street giants and multibillion-dollar annual subsidies to the likes of Big Oil, which...

A fracking conflict of interest

August 2012

ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and other giants of the hydraulic fracturing industry not only are fracking deep gas wells all over our...

Food manipulators trying to deceive voters

August 2012

An old adage says, “Never buy a pig in a poke.” But what about a poke hidden in a pig?...

Is nothing sacred to frackers?

August 2012

Such energy powers as BP, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and Koch Industries have gone crackers over fracking! Seeing huge profits from this...

Romney runs away from his running mate

August 2012

Poor Paul Ryan – he successfully rammed a budget bill through the U.S. House that gutted Medicare, thus earning him...