The Highroad

Earth Day cometh — the 43rd year of this national focus on our globe. Should we weep? Or cheer? Both. The first step toward any recovery is admitting that we have a problem. In fact, beaucoup of them. For example, despite the squawking of profiteering polluters and...

My state’s gallivanting goober of a governor, Rick Perry, is back in the news, with yet another “oops” moment...

In the ever-escalating competition to be the Number One big-time college football program in the nation, Ohio State University bulked up last fall with a monster recruit named Maxx...

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, known as the “White Maned Pontificator,” has recently been spewing a fountain of free-market dogma in the debate over health care reform...

Never have so few done so little for so many. But at last, they’re gone — Congress has adjourned for the year...

He did it. Unfortunately. Sadly. Disappointingly...

Loan sharks and their lobbyists really know how to put the “ick” in eth-icks...

If you choose to dance with the devil, never flatter yourself that you're in the lead...

Question: what do biotech corporations, national milk processors, and the Ohio state government have in common? Answer: defeat...

Where’s Woody when we need him...

The sky is falling! The end times are upon us! It’s all over for America! And it’s all because of you — you, the execrable voters...

While we Americans celebrate the 100th anniversary of our National Park Service, America’s socalled “leaders” are aggressively commercializing our parks, converting these jewels of the common good into just another corporate cash cow...