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Making Work Work for Workers

September 2021

As a writer, I get stuck every so often straining for the right words to tell my story. Over the... Read more...

What’s the “Quits Rate?” And Why Is It Skyrocketing?

August 2021

Corporate bosses across America have been sputtering in outrage at you working stiffs this summer, spewing expletives about the fact... Read more...

Should Apple Profit By Blocking Our Consumer Rights?

August 2021

At least since the invention of the wheel, people have fixed, tinkered with, and improved every device they’ve possessed. It’s... Read more...

Repair Your Own Products? Corporations Say No!

August 2021

America’s economic and political inequality has led workaday Americans to exclaim: “The system is broken. Let’s fix it!” But there’s... Read more...

Working From Home – While Your Boss Watches You on Video

August 2021

If you’re a corporate employee, you know that something unpleasant is afoot when top executives are suddenly issuing statements about... Read more...

Beware of “Spot,” the $75,000 Wonder Dog

August 2021

Tick-tick-tick… each sweep of Big-Tech’s clock enhances corporate power – but its hands also sweep away more of our civil... Read more...

To fix the Labor Shortage, Start With the Wage Shortage

August 2021

At a recent congressional hearing on America’s so-called “labor shortage,” megabanker Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, offered this insight: “People... Read more...

Should “Workforce” mean forcing workers to take crappy jobs?

August 2021

A recent headline blared: “Labor shortages end when wages rise.” Gosh, Captain Obvious, what an amazing discovery! Someone notify the... Read more...

There’s Rich, Ugly Rich, and Jeff Bezos

August 2021

I cheered recently when the richest man on Earth had himself rocketed into space. But then he came back down.... Read more...

How Pathetic is Jeff “Space Boy” Bezos?

August 2021

When I was just a tyke, cowboy actors were marketed as role models for little backyard cowpokes like me, and... Read more...

A Phoenix is Rising

July 2021

Our local newspapers are being merged, purged, shrunk, shut down, and looted by Wall Street profiteers – yet there’s good... Read more...

The Oracle Speaks

July 2021

Mega-investor Warren Buffett once held a big portfolio of daily and weekly newspapers, and he specialized in squeezing out competitors... Read more...

How the corporate plutocracy works

July 2021

An old political truism notes that, “Where there’s a will, there are 1,000 won’ts.” And what a hurricane of won’ts... Read more...

Is America big enough to Go Big again?

July 2021

It’s time for America to go back to the future – a future of true greatness created by a people... Read more...

Why Corporations Pay Millions for Executive Mediocrity

July 2021

Most people believe the American economy is being rigged by and for bankers, CEOs, and other superrich elites, because… well,... Read more...

The Grand Larceny of Bank(er) Robbery

July 2021

Exciting news from Wall Street: Our wealth markets are booming! Everything from the Dow Jones Average to gold prices are... Read more...

Is Your Governor Part Of The GOP’s Border Stunt?

July 2021

Herd immunity is important in stopping deadly viruses, but in politics the herd instinct can send a whole species over... Read more...

The Odd Virus Attacking Republican Governors

July 2021

WARNING: A mutant coronavirus named Gubernatorious Imbecilious is spreading across the country, threatening to become pandemic. Originating earlier this year... Read more...

Can GOP Autocracy Outlaw American Democracy?

July 2021

Ralph Waldo Emerson told of a dinner guest who went on and on about the virtue of honesty, offering his... Read more...

Are You a “Low-Quality” Voter?

June 2021

Hey, you, get away from those polling places! We don’t want your kind here! Scram! That’s a stupid, shameful, and... Read more...

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and You. Which One Pays Taxes?

June 2021

Here’s a thought-provoking bumper sticker: “The system is fixed. We must break it.” This thought came into vivid focus recently... Read more...

Will Jeff Bezos Return to Earth a Better Human?

June 2021

While Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed, “I have a dream,” it was full of lofty ethical stuff like “justice... Read more...

To fix the Labor Shortage, Start With the Wage Shortage

June 2021

At a recent congressional hearing on America’s so-called “labor shortage,” megabanker Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, offered this insight: “People... Read more...

Should “Workforce” mean forcing workers to take crappy jobs?

June 2021

A recent headline blared: “Labor shortages end when wages rise.” Gosh, Captain Obvious, what an amazing discovery! Someone notify the... Read more...

Let’s Create a Bank System That Serves People, Instead of Bankers

June 2021

Corporate ideologues never cease blathering that government programs should be run like a business. Really – what businesses would they... Read more...