Forget Trickle-Down BS – Let’s Push Percolate-up Economics April 2021The past year proves that a lot of conventional economic wisdom is neither true nor wise. For example: “We don’t...
Can GOP Autocracy Outlaw American Democracy? April 2021Ralph Waldo Emerson told of a dinner guest who went on and on about the virtue of honesty, offering his...
Are You a “Low-Quality” Voter? March 2021Hey, you, get away from those polling places! We don’t want your kind here! Scram! That’s a stupid, shameful, and...
Now, Robots are Coming for White-Collar Jobs March 2021In CorporateSpeak, there are no “job cuts.” Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.” Now, though, corporate wordsmiths...
Is Your Job in the Robot Kill Path? March 2021Hunters have come up with euphemisms to make what they do sound… well, less unpleasant. For example, animals aren’t killed,...
A Question of Nature March 2021When corporate executives are absurdly hypocritical, yet so obtuse that they don’t even realize it, is it still hypocrisy… or...
Give Nature a Right to Self-Defense March 2021There’s a white oak tree in Athens, Georgia, that is not owned by anyone. It’s an autonomous entity – known...
The GOP’s Shameful War on Voters March 2021After looking into one of their main issues, I have to agree with Republicans: Our elections are being rigged. Anyone...
What Makes Ted Cruz So Despicable? March 2021In February, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ran off to a luxury resort in sunny Cancún, Mexico, during the deep freeze...
What the Texas Deep Freeze Revealed March 2021I don’t know if Nero really fiddled while Rome burned, but it certainly is true that Texas Senator Ted Cruz...
A wealth of riches, a poverty of morals February 2021Let’s say you’re a millionaire. That’s a lot of money, right? Now let’s say you’re a billionaire. That’s a lot...
Who was Smedley Darlington Butler, and why is he important? February 2021Many Americans can’t believe that political coups are part of our country’s history – but consider from the Wall Street...
How Do You Spell “BOSS” February 2021What is it about billionaires and multimillionaires that make them both self-entitled and clueless about the impacts of their greed?...
Why Billionaires Are Detested February 2021The renowned Western Swing bandleader Bob Wills would joyously call out in mid-song, “Take it away, Leon,” bringing on a...
Can Biden, a lifelong insider, learn to dance with outsiders? February 2021The Democratic Party establishment is now issuing a go-slow warning to the new president they backed. They instruct that, while...
Hey Democrats – be democrats! February 2021The Democratic Party establishment has a message for us progressives: Go away! That club of don’t-rock-the-corporate-boat congressional leaders and their...
The Problem With Plastic… Is Plastic January 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 January 2021What does your toothbrush, a fish dinner, and your running shoes have in common? Plastic. We now live on Planet...
The corporate mob behind Trump January 2021You can’t poke into any issue in Congress without stumbling over sacks full of corporate campaign donations – and the...
Who’s really behind the desecration of our Capitol? January 2021The ransacking and terrorizing of Congress by violent Trumpeteers is an outrage, right? Even Republican congressional leaders have rushed to...
What America can learn from the Animal kingdom January 2021Are we back to the jungle, an animalistic society with roaming packs of foam-at-the-mouth beasts howling for the enthronement of...
Timeless truths for trying times January 2021What’s wrong with people? Has the savagery, selfishness, and raw, animal hatred within the human species finally come out of the darkness...
Is more technology the answer to too much technology? January 2021We humans have got to get a whole lot smarter, says Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla automobiles and...
A wealth tax for American Progress December 2020The rich are different from you and me. For one thing, they’re rich. Among the super-rich, though, there tends to...
Where to get the money to start fixing American inequality December 2020Jesse Jackson ran a strong populist campaign for president in 1988, advocating bold new policies and programs to address inequality....
