CEOS GET TAX BREAK, THEN BREAK THE LAW June 2009“Please, please,” wailed lobbyists for many of America’s largest multinational corporations in 2004, “let us come home!” Well, it was... Read more...
SHOULD CHARITY HOSPITALS BE CHARITABLE? June 2009As Lily Tomlin says, “No matter how cynical you get, it’s almost impossible to keep up.” The truth of Tomlin’s... Read more...
RESOLVING THE PRINGLES CONUNDRUM June 2009Deep questions confront humanity these days. Such as, what to do about that Israeli/Palestinian conflagration? Or this one: What is... Read more...
CORPORATIONS TRY TO CO-OPT LOCAL FOOD MOVEMENT June 2009The big demand in food these days is that it be locally-produced. A new term has even been coined –... Read more...
WORKERS MAKE BEANS AT STARBUCKS June 2009Starbucks. What does the name say to you? Does it conjure up Van Gogh’s serene portrait of the “Starry Night”?... Read more...
RICK SCOTT'S LATEST FRAUD June 2009Our country’s corporatized health care system is so uncaring that 76 percent of Americans tell pollsters it must be “fundamentally... Read more...
WALL STREET'S RECIPE FOR ANOTHER DISASTER June 2009Take a #5 tub of pure chutzpa, stir it into a giant vat of raw Wall Street greed, vigorously whisk... Read more...
PRODUCT ADS THAT DISCOMBOBULATE CONSUMERS June 2009It’s time for another trip into the Far, Far, Far-out, Frontiers of Free Enterprise. Today, Spaceship Hightower will thrust you... Read more...
THE BATTLE OF COAL RIVER VALLEY June 2009“You’ve got to stand for something,” sings John Mellencamp, “Or you’re gonna fall for anything,” Folks in West Virginia’s Coal... Read more...
HAVE YOU DRIVEN A GEELY LATELY? June 2009What are we going to be driving a few years from now? GM’s in bankruptcy, Chrysler is now run by... Read more...
BLUE CROSS FEARS COMPETITION FROM THE "PUBLIC OPTION" June 2009Golly – so many lies, so little time! Some of the profiteers in America’s current system of corporatized medicine are... Read more...
LET'S WATERBOARD SEAN HANNITY! June 2009You’ve got to give Mancow credit. He did it. Erich “Mancow” Muller manned up and rode “the liquid pony,” as... Read more...
A SOFT LANDING IN ROUGH TIMES May 2009These are rough times. How rough, you ask? So rough that even the relative roughness of toilet tissue has arisen... Read more...
SPREADING THE ORGANIC MOVEMENT COAST TO COAST May 2009What’s the number one outdoor activity in America? Not baseball, soccer, jogging or golf. Instead, it’s gardening! I happen to... Read more...
DEATH BY PIE May 2009How’s this for a tombstone? “Here lies a guy/ Killed by a pie.” More accurately, the killer is corporate globalization... Read more...
ACT NOW TO SAVE 3,500 GOOD AMERICAN JOBS May 2009Back when I had a job requiring me to wear suits, my brands of choice were Hart Shaffner Marx and... Read more...
GOLDMAN FOXES IN THE HENHOUSE May 2009Gosh, the federal henhouse seems to be overrun with Goldman foxes! Foxes from Goldman Sachs, that is – the financial... Read more...
ABSTINENCE ONLY – ONLY, NOT FOR ME May 2009I had finally done it. I had purged my memory of the name, Sarah Palin. The not-ready-for-prime-time governor of Alaska... Read more...
TAKING TAX DOLLARS WHILE SAYING ADIOS TO AMERICA May 2009Have corporate chieftains become deaf, blind, and stupid – or are they just stupid? Check out IBM, the computer giant... Read more...
THOSE WHO DIRECTED TORTURE: TOO BIG TO PUNISH? May 2009One of the most ignominious, most sordid, and saddest chapters in America’s presidential history was the decision by George W,... Read more...
LOOK WHO'S BEGGING FOR REGULATION May 2009“Regulate the health insurance giants,” chanted the reformers. “Stop denying coverage to sick people,” they demanded. “Health coverage for all,”... Read more...
THE SUPREME COURT SCORECARD May 2009Who’ll win the Belmont Stakes, the U.S. Open, the World Series – or, the Supreme Court seat being vacated by... Read more...
WHAT SHOULD WE CALL AIG? May 2009AIG is changing its name. Again. If you’ve been a longtime fan of the bruising sport of “Extreme Wall Street... Read more...
REINING IN CORPORATE TAX DODGERS May 2009The British Virgin Islands – the very name conjures up a Caribbean paradise of soft sand beaches, tropical breezes, and... Read more...
FINDING WAYS TO PERK UP CEO PAY May 2009As we’re learning the hard way, CEOs are not quite the brilliant cockadoodledoos they wanted you and me to think... Read more...
