The Highroad

Bottled pollution...

Another way that the rich are different from you and me is that their bankers serve freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies to them...

How’s this for irony? Ronald Reagan — who is worshipped as the supreme deity by small-government, anti-spending zealots — not only has a government office building in Washington named for him, but it’s the biggest and costliest one ever built...

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 ...

In addition to working up my own list of New Year’s resolutions, it occurs to me that some of the people running our country could benefit from my suggestions for their lists. No need for them to thank me — happy to help...

It’s a scary world out there, with global terrorists plotting to kill us...

  Wow, that was an exhilarating election, wasn’t it? Of course, even a car wreck can be exhilarating...

This new Republican-run House of Representatives is looking a lot like the old ethics-be-damned House run just a few years ago by the convicted money-launderer, Tom DeLay — only more so...

Excellent news, people. Let me put it to you as a number: 8.7 million...

An old adage says, “Never buy a pig in a poke.” But what about a poke hidden in a pig...

Excellent news, consumers: Biotech giants that’ve been secretly inserting genetically engineered organisms into thousands of food products you buy have just announced that they’re coming clean...

Could it be? Dare we think it? Is it possible that the Environmental Protection Agency might finally be getting serious about providing some protection for Appalachia's environment and people...