WHY BANKERS HATE JUDGE ARTHUR SCHACK September 2009With his trusty slingshot, David won that famous confrontation with Goliath – but, generally speaking, the Goliaths of our world...
HIDE THE SPONSOR September 2009It’s time for another edition of The Wide, Wide, Wide, WILD World of Sports! Today, we’re looking at a whole...
WORKERS MAKE BEANS AT STARBUCKS September 2009Starbucks. What does the name say to you? Does it conjure up Van Gogh’s serene portrait of the “Starry Night”?...
ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION September 2009Ah, progress! I’m not exactly a model citizen for the technologically-advanced, Internet-connected world we now inhabit. For example, I don’t...
EXECUTIVE PAY: THERE THEY GO AGAIN September 2009If you hit yourself over the head with a ballpeen hammer – that’s stupid. But if you do it again,...
THE HOAX OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY September 2009We have good news on this Labor Day America! Our long economic nightmare is over. At least that’s what we’re...
ALL THE WINE THAT'S FIT TO DRINK September 2009Newspapers are dead, we’re told. Dinosaurs in a twittering world. Well, try telling that to The New York Times. The...
OBAMA CONTINUES BUSH RENDITION POLICY September 2009The worst job in the circus, I’m told, is cleaning up after the elephants. So, poor Barack Obama! Coming into...
SHOULD CHARITY HOSPITALS BE CHARITABLE? August 2009As Lily Tomlin says, “No matter how cynical you get, it’s almost impossible to keep up.” The truth of Tomlin’s...
RESOLVING THE PRINGLES CONUNDRUM August 2009Deep questions confront humanity these days. Such as, what to do about that Israeli/Palestinian conflagration? Or this one: What is...
HOLDING WALL STREET BANKERS ACCOUNTABLE August 2009The White House hasn’t pushed it. The chairmen of the senate and house oversight committees have been too polite to...
REINING IN CORPORATE TAX DODGERS August 2009The British Virgin Islands – the very name conjures up a Caribbean paradise of soft sand beaches, tropical breezes, and...
WASHINGTON'S PLAN FOR AFGHANISTAN August 2009A funny thing happened on the way to democracy in Afghanistan. Washington’s well-laid plan was that American troops and development...
CORPORATIONS TRY TO CO-OPT LOCAL FOOD MOVEMENT August 2009The big demand in food these days is that it be locally-produced. A new term has even been coined –...
A BANKRUPT SYSTEM THAT BANKRUPTS FAMILIES August 2009America’s corportized health care system keeps producing unpleasant surprises. We’ve known for some time that this system, which puts profit...
TILLING THE ASTROTURF August 2009Wow, town hall protests are popping up like mushrooms on moldy astroturf. Astroturf is the corporate version of grassroots –...
RICK SCOTTS LATEST FRAUD August 2009Our country’s corporatized health care system is so uncaring that 76 percent of Americans tell pollsters it must be “fundamentally...
STARBUCKS DISOWNS ITSELF August 2009At last, a powerhouse competitor has challenged the market dominance of the corporate coffee colossus, Starbucks. The name of the...
COMPENSATING WALL STREET'S SOCIOPATHS August 2009The chilling caw of the raven in Edgar Allen Poe’s classic tale of horror was, “Nevermore.” In a modern update,...
A TRAITOROUS ASSAULT ON OUR DEMOCRACY August 2009In opposing Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination, Republican senators loudly denounced judicial activists who would use the bench to rewrite...
RIGHT-WING LOOPINESS August 2009If you want to take a stomach-churning ride on a loop-the-loop, you don’t have to go to the state fair...
THE COURT GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS August 2009When considering the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court, our politicians and pundits were like cats watching...
THE COWERING GUN ADVOCATES OF CONGRESS August 2009A tombstone in an old, Wild West cemetery in Arizona is chiseled with the last thoughts of a young gunslinger:...
GOOBERHEADS, BLIMPS, AND EARMARKS August 2009Time for another Gooberhead Award – presented periodically to those in the news who’ve got their tongues going 100 miles...
CHEVRON SOILS ITSELF August 2009Chevron, the world’s second-largest (and second-most profitable) oil giant has been running a carefully-crafted PR campaign telling us what a...
