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The next really big thing in food: you!

May 2012

Attention foodies: Let’s chow down! There’s a new craze in CuisineWorld, and it’s going 180-degrees in the opposite direction from... Read more...

Another Koch-funded stealth campaign

May 2012

Millions of children in our public schools will soon be hearing from the Heartland Institute. It might sound like a... Read more...

Listen to the weeds

May 2012

Rather than finding ways to cooperate with the natural world, America’s agribusiness giants reach for the next quick fix in... Read more...

Anheuser-Busch, drunk on greed

May 2012

The big brewers often admonish us imbibers of their grain products to “Drink Responsibly.” Well, I say back to them:... Read more...

Et tu, England?

May 2012

I guess we Americans could take some comfort from the fact that our own plutocrats on Wall Street and in... Read more...

Egalitarian Mormonism v. Mitt's plutocratic narcissism

May 2012

And, lo, Samuel the Lamanite decried the greedy habits of the inhabitants of Zarahemla and proclaimed them doomed: “You are... Read more...

Lost in Wal-Mart's rabbit hole

May 2012

The news of massive bribery by Wal-Mart’s Mexican subsidiary has filled Republican Rep. Darrell Issa with outrage – not at... Read more...

The stench of Bentonville spreads to Mexico

May 2012

Apparently a skunk doesn’t smell its own stink – or at least it’s not offended by it. Likewise, Wal-Mart honchos... Read more...

A sham for Wal-Mart's scam

May 2012

First, the corruption. Then, the cover-up. And now, a sham to cover-up the cover-up. This is the ongoing saga of... Read more...

Newt's denouement

May 2012

Like a dust devil popping up out of nowhere, twirling furiously for no apparent reason, sucking air into its funnel... Read more...

Down and out on Wall Street

May 2012

Have you heard about the earthquake that has shaken Wall Street to its very core? Well, brace yourself, for this... Read more...

The slickest stunt at SeaWorld

May 2012

Let me tell you a corporate morality tale that I call: “The Shame of Shamu.” Actually, Shamu is not the... Read more...

Wal-Mart sinks to the bottom

May 2012

Wal-Mart has long boasted of its “Always Low Prices,” but now it has confirmed that it also has “Always low... Read more...

Mitt's photo-op farce

May 2012

Poor Mitt Romney. He might have the picture-perfect Hollywood looks of a president, but he keeps stumbling, bumbling, and fumbling... Read more...

Down and out on Wall Street

April 2012

Maybe you thought the lowest possible point of Republican miserliness was reached when Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Agriculture proposed that... Read more...

To the barricades, people!

April 2012

The corporate money coup over America’s electoral democracy has rampaged through the Republican presidential primaries, and is now surging with... Read more...

Worker's taxes siphoned off by their bosses

April 2012

My congratulations to workers in 16 states – from Maine to Georgia, New Jersey to Colorado! Many of you will... Read more...

The inequity of private-equity hustlers

April 2012

What are these phantasmagoric money machines that they call “private-equity firms?” They’re much in the news now, with former private-equity... Read more...

ALEC'S Comeuppance

April 2012

No one likes a smart aleck – or a stupid one, for that matter. A really stupid one is called... Read more...

"The Citizens United Gang"

April 2012

The Lone Ranger was a masked man who was out to bring bad guys to justice. Ed Conard is a... Read more...

The tale of J.R. Simplot's two-headed trout

April 2012

The corporate propensity for rationalizing the irrational in the pursuit of profit appears to be boundless. Consider J.R. Simplot, a... Read more...

Mitt Romney's gang of highway robbers

April 2012

Look out – the Kleptocrat Gang is loose on the land! Unlike thieves of old, this gang is not out... Read more...

The Mad Hatter of the GOP's tea party

April 2012

Just when you think the tea party Republican majority in the U.S. House couldn’t possibly get any screwier, up jumps... Read more...

Baseball bobbles a big Constitutional play

April 2012

Baseball is my favorite sport, but this year the umpire had barely hollered “play ball” for the first game of... Read more...

The horror of the hoodie

April 2012

I’ve not weighed in on the Trayvon Martin killing, because I really didn’t have anything to add. Until now. I... Read more...