The Highroad

Organic subsidiaries out their parent conglomerates

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National brand-name food conglomerates are coming a cropper over California’s Proposition 37. Actually, it’s a double cropper...

Look out — the yummies are coming!

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Attention, men. Yes, you —you with the Y chromosomes—it’s time for some man-talk. Specifically, we need to address how you dress...

Wall Street gets giddy over the urge to merge

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Uh-oh. You always have to worry when you hear that there’s a new “air of giddiness on Wall Street...

Organize for 2012

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At last, a New Year cometh! I say “at last” because, politically, 2011 was a rough ride...

Reviving the Bush-Cheney torture policy

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A bumper sticker from around 2008 offered a stinging, four-word response to the Bush-Cheney regime’s enthusiasm for the cruel sport of waterboarding: “Impeach Bush,” it urged, “Torture Cheney...

How clueless can the GOP establishment get?

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Exciting news, people! The Republican Party’s establishment has a secret plan to stop its blue-collar voters from supporting Donnie Trump. Their plan is code-named:...

Fly away

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Some are born with good luck. But I was 30 years old before Lady Luck smiled on me with full radiance, arriving in the...

How to make billboards uglier

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Okay people, we need to discuss billboards. Yes, we really must. At best, these giant corporate placards are problematic — they garishly loom over us,...

Big political donors buying elections… and public policies

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Who does David Keating think he’s fooling...

Corporate Johns and turning legislative tricks

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Prostitutes are amateurs compared to Texas state Sen. Kel Seliger, whose going rate is $20,000 a pop. At least that’s what he was paid last year by Waste Control Specialists...

Rabbits, endangered rhinos and the Dallas Safari Club

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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 ...

Forget shaming this do-nothing Congress. Stop paying them!

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Want good quality, lower-cost health care for your family — and (what the hell, let’s think big here) for every man, woman and (especially)...