The Highroad

Bob Dylan once sent a two-word lyric to Ben Harper, a talented songwriter he admired. “Well well,” was the lyric, and Dylan challenged Harper to make a song of it...

America’s economic recovery can be measured not only in the performance of stocks — but also of socks...

The Powers That Be constantly try to pull the wool over people’s eyes, but sometimes the wool blinders are so itchy that people rip them off and clearly see the scam...

Environmental groups tend to be a bit grim-faced, since they’re constantly confronting industrial uglies that range somewhere between awful and apocalyptic. So it’s a treat when one of them turns impishly playful, as a group of climate change activists called 350 ...

Get ready to swallow your “Statistic of the Day...

In response to the Supreme Court’s freakish decision in 2010 to bestow political “personhood” on corporations, I got an email from a guy named Larry, screaming that “big money has plucked our eagle...

Here’s a crime drama, tragedy and farce — all in one play...

Yes, we certainly need to cut unnecessary and even frivolous federal spending, because, well, because it’s unnecessary and frivolous...

ExxonMobil, Halliburton and other giants of the hydraulic fracturing industry not only are fracking deep gas wells all over our country, they’re also trying to frack our heads...

You’ll be comforted to know that the rich are concerned about you. Not concerned about your joblessness, lack of health care or anything else about your economic condition. No, no — it’s your psychological state of mind that has them worried. In particular, they are ...

Lightning’s flashing, winds are howling — and there’s a tempest in the tea party! Why it’s Dick Armey, the blowhard, former Republican majority leader, corporate lobbyist, Koch brothers’ retainer and commanding general of the tea party army...

War is hell...