The Highroad
Pop goes our anti-poppy policy
Recently, I found myself humming the Old Beatles song Poppy Fields Forever...
The slickest stunt at SeaWorld
Let me tell you a corporate morality tale that I call: “The Shame of Shamu...
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 real scandal in Denny Hastert’s life
Washington’s gossip mill is spinning furiously over the recent revelations about Dennis Hastert’s long hidden sexual molestation scandal. But what about the filthy, backroom affair he’s been openly conducting with corporate lobbyists for nearly two decades...
The biggest bank heist you never heard about
boulderweekly.com/highroad Has your banker stopped by to thank you yet? Thanks are due, of course, for your share of the $700 billion bailout that we taxpayers provided for the giant banks after their greedy and reckless behavior imploded our nation’s financial ...
The ‘Beckinization’ of the far right
Perhaps you thought that, surely, the far right wing in American politics couldn’t get any nuttier. If so, you clearly hadn’t factored in Glenn Beck...
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...
Propagandizing school kids for corporate profit
Are you a parent who’s worried about the plethora of highly questionable bio-engineered organisms that agribusiness profiteers have quietly been slipping into everything from snack foods to school lunches? Well, perhaps your own children can put your mind at ease, ...
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...
