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BUSING ADS TO SCHOOL KIDS

August 2006

You know what’s wrong with kids today? They’re just not getting enough advertising in their lives, that’s what. Take school.... Read more...

A BILL TO BAN SWEATSHOP LABOR

August 2006

The mantra of the global corporate establishment is: “free trade… free trade… free trade…” Especially insidious is their insistence that... Read more...

THE PRICE OF CONGLOMERATE JOURNALISM

August 2006

The new managing editor of Time magazine has a rather grandiose sense of his publication’s place in the scheme of... Read more...

CONGRESSIONAL PRIORITIES

August 2006

Some stories that I come across cause my hair to burst into flames and my eyeballs to explode. This is... Read more...

CRUDE OIL

August 2006

When you look at the price you’re paying for gasoline, then look at the profits that Exxon, Shell, and the... Read more...

BAD BOSSES

August 2006

During his 13-year tenure, the recently-retired CEO of Exxon Mobile paid himself $144,000 a day – and he worked in... Read more...

AMERICA BUILDS A PALACE IN IRAQ

August 2006

To those critics who keep yammering that the Bushites have spent billions of our tax dollars for the reconstruction of... Read more...

SUPERRICH TAX CHEATS

August 2006

The truly rich are very different from you and me – they don’t pay taxes. Instead they pay millions of... Read more...

THE PARIS HILTON MINIMUM WAGE HIKE

August 2006

Step right up folks and get your own bottle of Dr. Republican’s fabulous, new, magic cure-all potion! It’s 100-percent guaranteed... Read more...

BUSH'S NEW KANGAROO COURTS

August 2006

As the nature and form of our nation’s government was being debated some 200 years ago, George Washington is said... Read more...

HOW BIG IS YOUR TV?

August 2006

Time for another peek [Lifestyle Theme] into the “Lifestyles of the Rich… and Cranky.” Today’s feature: How big is yours?... Read more...

PROTECTING AMERICA FROM FAIR DRUG PRICES

August 2006

Isn’t it great to know that our homeland security officials are on the job to protect you and me? Yesirsee,... Read more...

ANOTHER FRONT GROUP FOR GEORGE

August 2006

George W has a new veterans front group trying to give him some political cover. He had the notorious “Swift... Read more...

BUSH'S BACKFIRE

August 2006

Giving credit where credit is due, I’ll concede that Bush’s gang of neo-con ideological nutballs were right when they said... Read more...

A SECRET WINDFALL FOR DRUG MAKERS

August 2006

It looks like ’06 is going to be a banner year for drug corporations! Profits at Merck, for example, have... Read more...

RAISING THE BAR ON EXCLUSIVITY

July 2006

It’s time for another peek [Lifestyle Theme] into “The Lifestyles of the Rich… and Cranky.” The cruel irony of being... Read more...

GIANTS LEECHING ON SBA

July 2006

You might assume that the Small Business Administration exists to help, you know, small business. But that would ignore the... Read more...

THE COMIC ABSURDITY OF HOMELAND SECURITY

July 2006

Code Red Alert! Code Red! Your department of homeland security is at it again! This bungling bureaucratic behemoth, which is... Read more...

SUBSIDIZING BOEING'S CRIMINALITY

July 2006

Even when a big corporation is caught red-handed in an illegal scam to steal billions of dollars from us taxpayers... Read more...

THE "NEW" FEMA

July 2006

The U.S. senate has voted to kill FEMA. Yes, FEMA is finito. The infamous Federal Emergency Management Agency that so... Read more...

PUMPING OUT MORE ADVERTISING

July 2006

Corporate advertisers are concerned. Not concerned that they’ve so inundated our brains with so many ads that we now automatically... Read more...

THE GOVERNMENT'S SICK WAR ON MARIJUANA

July 2006

Excuse me for a moment while I vent about the mind-boggling stupidity of the autocratic, bureaucratic, right-wing, neanderthal numbskulls who... Read more...

SANTORUM DISCOVERS MUSTARD AGENTS

July 2006

Attention, Bush-backers. I have excellent news for you concerning George W’s slippery rationale for his Iraq Attack: at long last,... Read more...

TWO VIEWS OF GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP

July 2006

Two governments are cracking down on freedom of the press, condemning unauthorized disclosures of information that officials prefer to keep... Read more...

GETTING GOOFY ON HOMELAND SECURITY

July 2006

Mirror, mirror, on the wall – who is the goofiest of them all? Maybe it’s Robert Mueller, the dull-witted FBI... Read more...