A SOFT LANDING IN ROUGH TIMES May 2009These are rough times. How rough, you ask? So rough that even the relative roughness of toilet tissue has arisen...
SPREADING THE ORGANIC MOVEMENT COAST TO COAST May 2009What’s the number one outdoor activity in America? Not baseball, soccer, jogging or golf. Instead, it’s gardening! I happen to...
DEATH BY PIE May 2009How’s this for a tombstone? “Here lies a guy/ Killed by a pie.” More accurately, the killer is corporate globalization...
ACT NOW TO SAVE 3,500 GOOD AMERICAN JOBS May 2009Back when I had a job requiring me to wear suits, my brands of choice were Hart Shaffner Marx and...
GOLDMAN FOXES IN THE HENHOUSE May 2009Gosh, the federal henhouse seems to be overrun with Goldman foxes! Foxes from Goldman Sachs, that is – the financial...
ABSTINENCE ONLY – ONLY, NOT FOR ME May 2009I had finally done it. I had purged my memory of the name, Sarah Palin. The not-ready-for-prime-time governor of Alaska...
TAKING TAX DOLLARS WHILE SAYING ADIOS TO AMERICA May 2009Have corporate chieftains become deaf, blind, and stupid – or are they just stupid? Check out IBM, the computer giant...
THOSE WHO DIRECTED TORTURE: TOO BIG TO PUNISH? May 2009One of the most ignominious, most sordid, and saddest chapters in America’s presidential history was the decision by George W,...
LOOK WHO'S BEGGING FOR REGULATION May 2009“Regulate the health insurance giants,” chanted the reformers. “Stop denying coverage to sick people,” they demanded. “Health coverage for all,”...
THE SUPREME COURT SCORECARD May 2009Who’ll win the Belmont Stakes, the U.S. Open, the World Series – or, the Supreme Court seat being vacated by...
WHAT SHOULD WE CALL AIG? May 2009AIG is changing its name. Again. If you’ve been a longtime fan of the bruising sport of “Extreme Wall Street...
REINING IN CORPORATE TAX DODGERS May 2009The British Virgin Islands – the very name conjures up a Caribbean paradise of soft sand beaches, tropical breezes, and...
FINDING WAYS TO PERK UP CEO PAY May 2009As we’re learning the hard way, CEOs are not quite the brilliant cockadoodledoos they wanted you and me to think...
DOPING RACEHORSES TO WIN FAST BUCKS May 2009Remember the old folk song about a horse named Stewball? “Stewball was a race horse/ and I wish he were...
WALL STREET WINS, PEOPLE LOSE IN SENATE VOTE May 2009What is it about Democrats in Washington that makes them clang a slam dunk? They have the greedheaded, boneheaded Wall...
DEATH, TAXES… AND DEBT COLLECTORS May 2009These are hard times for debt collectors. After all, who can pay their bills these days? Not Wall Street, Detroit,...
HIDING THE FACTS ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE May 2009Let’s quote the experts on the matter of global climate change: “The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and potential...
LLOYD BLANKFEIN'S BIG HAIR May 2009Saying that such-and-such is the greediest bank on Wall Street is like someone claiming to have the biggest hairdo in...
HE'S BACK May 2009You think to yourself: He’s gone. At long last, he’s gone. But, no, there he is again! Like a cold,...
WALL STREET STILL PLAYING TRICKS ON US May 2009President Obama sees “glimmers of hope.” The Federal Reserve chairman says he sees “green shoots” of progress. They’re not talking...
SILLY GAMES PLAYED BY WALL STREET CEOS May 2009Wall Street honchos seem to be born with an extra gene called, “the finagler.” Whenever they see profit figures, for...
MICROCHIPPING AMERICA WITH A NATIONAL ID CARD April 2009Should the government require us to carry a national ID card embedded with what amounts to a bar code containing...
THE RIDICULOUS CLASS BIAS IN AMERICA'S TAX CODE April 2009The rich truly are different from you and me, for they are treated differently. I’m not talking about the merely...
GOP WEEPS FOR WALL STREET, STIFFS CONSUMERS April 2009How’s that Wall Street bailout going, you ask? Well, several trillion tax dollars into it, treasury chief Timothy Geithner has...
TEXAS GOVERNOR DRAWS LINE IN THE SAND April 2009The Texas Governorship is one of the weakest in the country – and we often elect people whose abilities are...
