The Highroad

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...

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal last year, and in short order he has turned it into a tongue-clucking sympathizer with and proselytizer for the biggest of big businesses — not only on its editorial pages, but also in its news stories...

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

An old cliché says: “Hard work always pays off...

Let’s review the rap sheet of Wall Street banks: Defrauding investors, cheating homeowners, money laundering, rigging markets, tax evasion, credit card ripoffs...

Any remake of the 1950s movie The Bad Seed should cast Monsanto in the title role...

The golden goose is flying high! That’s not some sort of nonsensical code used by spies, but an exultation by airline executives who’re thrilled by the surging success of their main line of business. Flying is, of course, what airlines are supposed to do, but ...

Actor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the word irony when his mother called him a “son of a bitch.” So...

How ironic: Fracking recently got fracked...

"I’m 98 percent confident we can make a tomato that tastes substantially better,” Professor Harry Klee recently exulted to The New York Times...

boulderweekly.com/highroad Doing a public service was the very last thing on the minds of the geniuses at Goldman Sachs who created Abacus 2007-ACI, but I, for one, am grateful to them. Abacus is the name of the investment package that has caused mighty Goldman...

The popular perception is that bank robbers wear ski masks when doing their jobs, but a lot of modern-day bank robbers are wearing Armani suits and Gucci loafers...