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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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... Read more...
Forget Trickle-Down BS – Let’s Push Percolate-up Economics April 2021The past year proves that a lot of conventional economic wisdom is neither true nor wise. For example: “We don’t... Read more...
Can GOP Autocracy Outlaw American Democracy? April 2021Ralph 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? March 2021Hey, you, get away from those polling places! We don’t want your kind here! Scram! That’s a stupid, shameful, and... Read more...
Now, Robots are Coming for White-Collar Jobs March 2021In CorporateSpeak, there are no “job cuts.” Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.” Now, though, corporate wordsmiths... Read more...
Is Your Job in the Robot Kill Path? March 2021Hunters have come up with euphemisms to make what they do sound… well, less unpleasant. For example, animals aren’t killed,... Read more...
A Question of Nature March 2021When corporate executives are absurdly hypocritical, yet so obtuse that they don’t even realize it, is it still hypocrisy… or... Read more...
Give Nature a Right to Self-Defense March 2021There’s a white oak tree in Athens, Georgia, that is not owned by anyone. It’s an autonomous entity – known... Read more...
The GOP’s Shameful War on Voters March 2021After looking into one of their main issues, I have to agree with Republicans: Our elections are being rigged. Anyone... Read more...
What Makes Ted Cruz So Despicable? March 2021In February, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ran off to a luxury resort in sunny Cancún, Mexico, during the deep freeze... Read more...
What the Texas Deep Freeze Revealed March 2021I don’t know if Nero really fiddled while Rome burned, but it certainly is true that Texas Senator Ted Cruz... Read more...
A wealth of riches, a poverty of morals February 2021Let’s say you’re a millionaire. That’s a lot of money, right? Now let’s say you’re a billionaire. That’s a lot... Read more...
