The Highroad
A bawdy house of bad right-wing ideas
If you’re wondering where Congress’ next truly bad idea will come from, keep an eye on a secretive far-right-wing outfit called ALEC — the...
Helpful New Year’s resolutions
In addition to working up my own list of New Year’s resolutions, it occurs to me that some of the people running our country could benefit from my suggestions for their lists. No need for them to thank me — happy to help...
Your new neighborhood food market
The signature phrase of America’s booming good food movement has been expanded from “organic” to “local and sustainable...
Rabbits, endangered rhinos and the Dallas Safari Club
Have you ever heard of the rabbit hunter’s nightmare? A guy dreams that he and a few of his buddies have fanned out across some brushland to scare up and shoot a few hares. They kill a couple, but then, one of the hunting buddies who’d headed down a slope into a ...
What if we made voting fun?
The shameful truth about America’s democratic process is that it’s become so un-democratic that they don’t want you to vote.
By “they” I mean...
Trump’s tax-cut scam worked perfectly
Remember last year when Donald Trump and his congressional Trumpeteers bragged that their yuuuuuge tax cut for corporations would spark a yuuuuuge corporate spending...
Driving America’s yellow school bus to educational hell
Public education used to be, you know, public, as in: An essential societal investment for the betterment of all, paid for by all through school taxes...
Putting traumatized immigrant children out of sight
In June, our immigrant-bashing president ordered an end to his own warped policy of forcibly tearing terrified migrant children from the arms of their...
The free-enterprise mirage of Sheldon Adelson
According to the self-aggrandizing mythology of America’s right-wing rich, Sheldon Adelson is one of society’s “producers,” not one of those morally inferior “moochers” who’re always looking for government handouts...
How to keep ‘public’ and ‘service’ in our public Postal Service
A half-dollar hardly counts as money these days — it won’t even buy a cup of coffee. But, psst... here’s an amazing half-dollar bargain for...
Chevrolet crashes Chevy
boulderweekly.com/highroad Good news, people. General Motors has turned a profit! However, there’s bad news, too: GM’s top executives are insane. By which I mean bonkers, loopy, bull-goose crazy. How else to explain the carmaker’s recent effort to rebrand “Chevy...
