DEATH BY PIE June 2009How’s this for a tombstone? “Here lies a guy/ Killed by a pie.” More accurately, the killer is corporate globalization...
ECONOMIC LESSONS FROM AMERICA'S "BOOZE INDICATORS" June 2009Jack Welch, what a guy! The former-CEO of General Electric – who paid himself a fortune while slashing jobs and...
WHY NO REPUBLICAN HEALTH-CARE REFORMS? June 2009We’ve heard a good deal about Democratic Party plans to reform America’s corporatized, no-care health care system – but it’s...
WHY SUPPORT CORPORATIONS THAT DON'T SUPPORT US? June 2009Yes, our overall economy is a wreck – but you’ll be glad to know that one business sector is booming:...
A BANKRUPT SYSTEM THAT BANKRUPTS FAMILIES June 2009America’s corportized health care system keeps producing unpleasant surprises. We’ve known for some time that this system, which puts profit...
WALL STREET IS ROBBING US AT THE GAS PUMP June 2009Like a 4th of July bottle rocket, our gasoline prices are shooting upward. However, tongue-clucking market analysts tell us there’s...
WHAT TO DO ABOUT BURPING BOVINES June 2009Here’s something you might not have known: cows belch. A lot. Great Big Buuuuuuurps. Why should we care? Because, these...
POLITICOS POCKET SPECIAL-INTEREST MONEY June 2009Like a shoplifter’s long coat, a politician’s suit comes with an astonishing assortment of inside pockets – and a report...
WHO SAYS AMERICA DOESN'T NEED UNIONS? June 2009The National Transportation Safety Board has now issued its official review of “The Miracle On The Hudson” – the US...
CEOS GET TAX BREAK, THEN BREAK THE LAW June 2009“Please, please,” wailed lobbyists for many of America’s largest multinational corporations in 2004, “let us come home!” Well, it was...
SHOULD CHARITY HOSPITALS BE CHARITABLE? June 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 June 2009Deep questions confront humanity these days. Such as, what to do about that Israeli/Palestinian conflagration? Or this one: What is...
CORPORATIONS TRY TO CO-OPT LOCAL FOOD MOVEMENT June 2009The big demand in food these days is that it be locally-produced. A new term has even been coined –...
WORKERS MAKE BEANS AT STARBUCKS June 2009Starbucks. What does the name say to you? Does it conjure up Van Gogh’s serene portrait of the “Starry Night”?...
RICK SCOTT'S LATEST FRAUD June 2009Our country’s corporatized health care system is so uncaring that 76 percent of Americans tell pollsters it must be “fundamentally...
WALL STREET'S RECIPE FOR ANOTHER DISASTER June 2009Take a #5 tub of pure chutzpa, stir it into a giant vat of raw Wall Street greed, vigorously whisk...
PRODUCT ADS THAT DISCOMBOBULATE CONSUMERS June 2009It’s time for another trip into the Far, Far, Far-out, Frontiers of Free Enterprise. Today, Spaceship Hightower will thrust you...
THE BATTLE OF COAL RIVER VALLEY June 2009“You’ve got to stand for something,” sings John Mellencamp, “Or you’re gonna fall for anything,” Folks in West Virginia’s Coal...
HAVE YOU DRIVEN A GEELY LATELY? June 2009What are we going to be driving a few years from now? GM’s in bankruptcy, Chrysler is now run by...
BLUE CROSS FEARS COMPETITION FROM THE "PUBLIC OPTION" June 2009Golly – so many lies, so little time! Some of the profiteers in America’s current system of corporatized medicine are...
LET'S WATERBOARD SEAN HANNITY! June 2009You’ve got to give Mancow credit. He did it. Erich “Mancow” Muller manned up and rode “the liquid pony,” as...
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...
