Opinion
Congressional looters
Beware — laissez-faire ideological loonies are loose in Washington! They’re waving machetes, toting sledgehammers, and going right for your Social Security...
Think globally and frack locally
Think globally and act locally? Some do it better than others...
How to make childbirth more painful
Sometimes I come across an outrage so outrageous that I think: “Surely this can’t be. Someone has to be making this stuff up...
Repeal the Patriot Act
It’s back. The Patriot Act — a grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors — has risen again, this time with an added twist of Orwellian intrusiveness from the Obamacans...
Imagining the ‘unimaginable’
Last week the quiet town of Waseca, Minn. narrowly avoided becoming “one more in a long list of school shootings” (I will come back to this language of the CNN report). A boy, 17 years old, had plotted to kill his family and bomb the town’s junior and senior high ...
Trump’s dangerous rhetoric
Rapists. Murderers. Drug Dealers. Gang Bangers. Donald Trump said the clever Mexican government is conning weak and stupid American leaders by “sending” mostly “really bad” people into the U.S...
Nixon comes back as a Democrat
Harvey and I were breaking out the Doritos when there was a knock on the door...
Corporate arrogance and government ignorance
Arrogance is an unpleasant trait, but when it’s overlaid with ignorance, it really gets ugly...
COPOUT 21
The United Nations is going to hold a big climate conference in Paris starting next Monday (and droning on until December 11) during which the world is really gonna get a handle on this global warming thing, by golly...







