How to get Congress to reform our broken healthcare system February 1, 2022For $3.5 Trillion a year, shouldn’t we Americans have a world-class healthcare system? Yet, while we spend the most of... Read more...
What’s the charitable thing to do about inequality? January 27, 2022Our society has coined expressions like “philanthropist” to encourage and hail people’s charitable spirit. Look on the flip side of... Read more...
The chicken sh*t lobby for corporate health care January 25, 2022As Lyndon Johnson used to say about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation:... Read more...
What if antibiotics no longer work? January 6, 2022Can antibiotic medicines, long hailed as miracle drugs, be too much of a good thing? Yes. Two factors are at... Read more...
A curse, a blessing, and a good food movement January 4, 2022In 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaign that came close to getting the US Senate to reject Earl... Read more...
Daddy’s Philosophy December 23, 2021This holiday season got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of... Read more...
Merry Christmas, right-wingers, The Red Pope, and Jesus December 21, 2021Here’s a twist on Christmas that would make Jesus weep. First, a right-wing faction in the US has been wringing... Read more...
The Problem With Plastic… Is Plastic December 16, 2021In a world that’s clogged and choking with a massive overdose of plastic trash, you’ll be heartened to learn that... Read more...
The Plasticization of Planet Earth December 14, 2021What does your toothbrush, a fish dinner, and your running shoes have in common? Plastic. We now live on Planet... Read more...
Making Work Work for Workers December 2, 2021As 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? November 30, 2021Corporate bosses across America have been sputtering in outrage at you working stiffs this summer, spewing expletives about the fact... Read more...
Which food future will you choose? November 25, 2021America certainly has an abundance of food (even though many Americans do not), yet we face a momentous choice of... Read more...
When and where was the first Thanksgiving Feast? November 23, 2021Let’s talk Turkey! No, not the Butterball sitting in the Oval Office. I’m talking about the real thing, the big... Read more...
Should Apple Profit By Blocking Our Consumer Rights? November 11, 2021At 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! November 9, 2021America’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 October 28, 2021If 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 October 26, 2021Tick-tick-tick… each sweep of Big-Tech’s clock enhances corporate power – but its hands also sweep away more of our civil... Read more...
Why Corporations Pay Millions for Executive Mediocrity October 7, 2021Most 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 October 5, 2021Exciting news from Wall Street: Our wealth markets are booming! Everything from the Dow Jones Average to gold prices are... Read more...
Your Dog Knows Better Than To Let The GOP “Fix” Our Postal System September 28, 2021When Donald Trump declared he would fix the US Postal Service, he was using the word “fix” the same way... Read more...
Can Corporate Profit and Morality Be Compatible? September 23, 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? September 21, 2021We’ve got the Academy Awards, the Emmy’s, and GRAMMYs… but what should we call the award for the most extraordinary... Read more...
Forget Trickle-Down BS – Let’s Push Percolate-up Economics September 14, 2021The past year proves that a lot of conventional economic wisdom is neither true nor wise. For example: “We don’t... Read more...
How the corporate plutocracy works July 22, 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? July 20, 2021It’s time for America to go back to the future – a future of true greatness created by a people... Read more...
