The Odd Virus Attacking Republican Governors July 2021WARNING: A mutant coronavirus named Gubernatorious Imbecilious is spreading across the country, threatening to become pandemic. Originating earlier this year...
Can GOP Autocracy Outlaw American Democracy? July 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? June 2021Hey, you, get away from those polling places! We don’t want your kind here! Scram! That’s a stupid, shameful, and...
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and You. Which One Pays Taxes? June 2021Here’s a thought-provoking bumper sticker: “The system is fixed. We must break it.” This thought came into vivid focus recently...
Will Jeff Bezos Return to Earth a Better Human? June 2021While Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed, “I have a dream,” it was full of lofty ethical stuff like “justice...
BONUS: Join me at the Hightower Lowdown Happy Hour at the Chat & Chew Cafe June 2021Hidey-ho, folks! Thanks for tuning in to and sharing my weekly commentaries. Also, I hope you’ll join me for a...
To fix the Labor Shortage, Start With the Wage Shortage June 2021At a recent congressional hearing on America’s so-called “labor shortage,” megabanker Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, offered this insight: “People...
Should “Workforce” mean forcing workers to take crappy jobs? June 2021A recent headline blared: “Labor shortages end when wages rise.” Gosh, Captain Obvious, what an amazing discovery! Someone notify the...
Let’s Create a Bank System That Serves People, Instead of Bankers June 2021Corporate ideologues never cease blathering that government programs should be run like a business. Really – what businesses would they...
Your Dog Knows Better Than To Let The GOP “Fix” Our Postal System June 2021When Donald Trump declared he would fix the US Postal Service, he was using the word “fix” the same way...
Banker Greed That Would Even Shock Woody Guthrie May 2021Woody Guthrie had a lot to say about the greed of bankers who made crop loans at usurious interest rates...
What’s Under Sid Miller’s Thousand-Dollar Hat? May 2021The agriculture commissioner of Texas, Sid Miller, is the one top official in our state willing to take a bold...
The Plutocrats Cry, People Cheer May 2021“Outrageous,” screeched the US Chamber of Commerce. “It doesn’t feel fair,” whimpered a top corporate executive. The wailing by those...
What Floats Jeff Bezos’ Boat May 2021Not only are the rich different from you and me – they’re getting more different than ever. I’m not referring...
Can Corporate Profit and Morality Be Compatible? May 2021Is “corporate ethics” an oxymoron? Do you have to be a jerk to be a successful CEO? Is exploitation the...
How About an Award for Sleaziest Corporate Profiteering? May 2021We’ve got the Academy Awards, the Emmy’s, and GRAMMYs… but what should we call the award for the most extraordinary...
Are CEOs Really “Worth” Millions of Dollars? May 2021These days, the haughty rich in our country have developed such an arrogant sense of self-entitlement that they’ve gone from...
Rich Whites Trying to Suppress Native Americans. Again May 2021It’s tough being rich. For one thing, you have to be on constant alert to keep commoners from encroaching on...
Should Water Be A Wet Dream for Wall Street Speculators April 2021Oh great – here comes a new stealth attack on the fragile, life-sustaining natural resources of Planet Earth. This assault...
Why Do We Celebrate Earth Day? April 2021Why all this hoopla about Earth Day, grump the barons of Big Oil and other corporate plunderers of our natural...
To Bust Monopoly Powers, Start With Dinner April 2021What if we took monopoly out of our daily diets? Busting the power of abusive and arrogant food monopolists would...
Monopoly Is What’s For Dinner April 2021No longer just a parlor game, monopoly is what’s for dinner. Practically every commodity and every step in producing our...
How the corporate plutocracy works April 2021An old political truism notes that, “Where there’s a will, there are 1,000 won’ts.” And what a hurricane of won’ts...
Is America big enough to Go Big again? April 2021It’s time for America to go back to the future – a future of true greatness created by a people...
Hey Washington: Follow The People April 2021“Those in the know” say that We the People should forget any progressive fantasy that – at long last –...
