From corporate polluters to political bosses, power elites try to create a myth of inevitability, trying to make workaday people... Read more...
We’re trying something new here at the Lowdown! We’ve been having a blast with our live talk show, so we’re... Read more...
America’s stringent system of corporate capitalism keeps carving out new depths of worker exploitation. Take Chick-fil-A, a right-wing, Atlanta-based, fast-food... Read more...
“Work your fingers to the bone – whadda ya get? Boney Fingers.” This 1960s song mocking the vaunted virtue of... Read more...
Is it a good deal to sell out your personal integrity for cash from notorious scoundrels? Depends on your sell-out... Read more...
Republican politicos are all over Joe Biden for failing to stop inflation. Perhaps you wonder, though, what these squawkers would... Read more...
Although we haven’t even gotten through this year’s midterm congressional elections, it’s still not too early to start examining some... Read more...
How about Ron DeSantis? The Florida governor is the new darling of the right-wing media, funders, and other establishment powers... Read more...
“It’s over.” “Biden’s numbers are in the ditch.” “Democrats are doomed.” “Call the priest.” These are Democrats talking! Even before... Read more...
President Biden recently flew off to Taiwan to assure allies there that he will fight for them. And next he’s... Read more...
“Equal Justice Under Law.” That’s the noble principle carved into the marble façade of the temple-like Supreme Court building. Today,... Read more...
Usurping the fundamental rights of women to control their own bodies. Authorizing corporate giants to buy our elections. Nullifying the... Read more...
When Supreme Court member Sam Alito’s secret plan for canceling the constitutional right of women to end their pregnancies leaked... Read more...
Mitch McConnell, the perpetually sour old goose who heads the Senate Republican Caucus, had a hissy fit when the news... Read more...
Here are two terms you don’t expect to see together: “The state of Alabama” and “progressive leader.” (Ok, I’m a... Read more...
Question: What does a packet of M&M’s and your local veterinarian have in common? Answer: Both are owned by Mars... Read more...
For many people, the animals they adopt and love become more like family members than pets. We have deep relationships,... Read more...
What is so supreme about the Supreme Court? I mean besides being housed in an imposing marble building, being the... Read more...
Ralph Waldo Emerson told about a guest who came to dinner and spent the entire evening prattling about his own... Read more...
The recent traffic-clogging protests by truck drivers in the US and Canada is about drivers being angry over COVID-19 vaccine... Read more...
Right-wing Republicans and corporate Democrats have become a pathetic bunch of “No-can-do Nancys.” Faced with an economy reeling from the... Read more...
Let’s talk pills. To treat everything from allergies to heart problems, half of Americans take a prescription medicine every day,... Read more...
In CorporateSpeak, there are no “job cuts.” Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.” Now, though, corporate wordsmiths... Read more...
Hunters have come up with euphemisms to make what they do sound… well, less unpleasant. For example, animals aren’t killed,... Read more...
Last July, several GOP senators combined their 5-watt intellects to charge that inflation was rising because of the “insane tax... Read more...