The Highroad
Sniffing the ethical rot in Wall Street’s culture
Let’s review the rap sheet of Wall Street banks: Defrauding investors, cheating homeowners, money laundering, rigging markets, tax evasion, credit card ripoffs...
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...
Corporate lobbyists challenged by a growing ‘Populist lobby’
Imagine a headline blaring, “An Army of 1,500 Lobbyists Swarms Capitol Hill...
Perry’s mess
Gosh, the 2016 presidential primaries are a long way off, but look out — for here comes Rick Perry of Texas, riding his state’s taxpayer dollars into the GOP primary...
Florida official can’t seem to get the hang of running elections
It’s our civic duty to vote, right? Well that depends on who you are. The disgusting reality is that many of the power elites don’t want certain people to vote, so they go to extremes to discourage and even harass those people to prevent them from exercising their ...
U.S. Postal Service selling out workers and… America
You know what America needs? More jobs, that’s what...
The mobsters of Wall Street
Assume that you ran a business that was found guilty of bribery, forgery, perjury, defrauding homeowners, fleecing investors, swindling consumers, cheating credit card holders, violating U.S. trade laws and bilking American soldiers. Can you even imagine the ...
Shouldn’t natural foods actually be natural?
Years ago the delightfully-naughty movie star, Mae West, said: “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted...
Millionaire lawmakers can rise above their financial handicap
Mark Twain spoke for me when he said: “I’m opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position...
The flim flam of the Employment Policies Institute
Mothers everywhere warn children not to put any food in their mouths unless they know where it came from. The same should apply to putting information in our heads...
Congressional critters get cozy with lobbyists
A corporate lobbyist recently admitted to the New York Times: “Everybody is embarrassed about it. Although not so embarrassed that they don’t do it...
