The Highroad
Yee-haw! Perry for president
The higher the monkey climbs, the more you see of its ugly side...
Corporate arrogance and government ignorance
Arrogance is an unpleasant trait, but when it’s overlaid with ignorance, it really gets ugly...
Pop goes our anti-poppy policy
Recently, I found myself humming the Old Beatles song Poppy Fields Forever...
A gamer’s wild pitch
In sports, a “gamer” is someone who’s always eager to play. However, in such pursuits as business and politics, a “gamer” is one who games the system...
The rich worry about you
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 ...
Repeal the Patriot Act
It’s back. The Patriot Act — a grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors — has risen again, this time with an added twist of Orwellian intrusiveness from the Obamacans...
The agonizingly slow pace of a fast food giant
The appeal of fast food chains has not been their food (mostly fat, salty, sugary, empty-calorie blah), but their speed...
A right to know what’s in your dinner
One of the most important elections being held on Nov. 6 doesn’t even have a Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian or other partisan on the ballot...
‘Double-S.O.B.s’ keep making a killing
It’s true that America’s working stiffs are mostly stuck in the muck of depression these days, spinning their economic wheels with low wages that can’t even keep pace with inflation. Still, though, there are some good news stories about some who’re doing well — such ...
Your new neighborhood food market
The signature phrase of America’s booming good food movement has been expanded from “organic” to “local and sustainable...
Listen to the weeds
Rather than finding ways to cooperate with the natural world, America’s agribusiness giants reach for the next quick fix in a futile effort to overpower nature. Their attitude is that if brute force isn’t working, they’re probably not using enough of it...
