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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...

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...

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

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

The rich are different from you and me. For one thing, they’re rich. Among the super-rich, though, there tends to... Read more...

Many Americans can’t believe that political coups are part of our country’s history – but consider from the Wall Street... Read more...

Suddenly, “social distancing” is our new national etiquette, abruptly supplanting handshakes, hugs, gatherings, and other forms of ingrained communal behavior... Read more...

In this horrible time of economic collapse, it is truly touching to see so many corporate chieftains reaching out in... Read more...

We might expect that corporate billionaires and Koch-funded Republican right-wingers would be howl-at-the-moon opponents of a wealth tax, Medicare-for-All, and... Read more...

For $3.5 Trillion a year, shouldn’t we Americans have a world-class healthcare system? Yet, while we spend the most of... Read more...

Our society has coined expressions like “philanthropist” to encourage and hail people’s charitable spirit. Look on the flip side of... Read more...

As Lyndon Johnson used to say about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation:... Read more...

Can antibiotic medicines, long hailed as miracle drugs, be too much of a good thing? Yes. Two factors are at... Read more...

In 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaign that came close to getting the US Senate to reject Earl... Read more...

This holiday season got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of... Read more...

Here’s a twist on Christmas that would make Jesus weep. First, a right-wing faction in the US has been wringing... Read more...

In a world that’s clogged and choking with a massive overdose of plastic trash, you’ll be heartened to learn that... Read more...

What does your toothbrush, a fish dinner, and your running shoes have in common? Plastic. We now live on Planet... Read more...