The Highroad
Organic subsidiaries out their parent conglomerates
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!
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
Uh-oh. You always have to worry when you hear that there’s a new “air of giddiness on Wall Street...
Organize for 2012
At last, a New Year cometh! I say “at last” because, politically, 2011 was a rough ride...
Reviving the Bush-Cheney torture policy
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?
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
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
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
Who does David Keating think he’s fooling...
Corporate Johns and turning legislative tricks
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
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!
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)...





