The Highroad
Free the free press from Wall Street plunderers
A two-panel cartoon I recently saw showed a character with a sign saying: “First they came for the reporters.” In the next panel, his...
Get a whiff of ‘synthetic biology’
It’s always inspiring to see global corporate giants crush small farmers, stomp on nature, circumvent our laws by hook or crook, and deceive and gouge consumers...
Keeping score on Exxon
Now, let’s check today’s sports scores: 4, 10.7 and 21-and-a-half...
Really and truly, who needs facts?
Here in America the word “fact” has a straightforward, rather obvious meaning: Truth, reality, something that actually exists.
But we now find ourselves transplanted to...
Adios, Amazon
Amazon’s notorious attempt to squeeze $3 billion in subsidies from New York taxpayers had two very positive results: One, it shoved these immoral bribery...
Look out — the yummies are coming!
Attention, men. Yes, you —you with the Y chromosomes—it’s time for some man-talk. Specifically, we need to address how you dress...
America’s good food movement
What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country’s food rebels...
There’s a word for Trump’s latest flimflamming of workers
By gollies, The Donald delivers!
Trump and his new blue-ribbon panel of working-class champions have announced a bold initiative to create millions of American jobs....
Bankers keep running with illegal foreclosures
Two-year-olds often go running around the house too wildly and crash into something. They get an “ouchie” and fall down crying, but they learn from it...
Walgreens: An unpatriotic ingrate
How would you react if one of your neighbors announced that while he obviously benefits from having clean water, highways, Medicare, police protection, parks, schools, and other public services, he was no longer going to pay his part of the taxes that make them ...
Shoving America back to the Great Recession
The core economic problem we’re facing today is that both unemployment and underemployment are rampant, stifling any hope for real recovery and threatening the very survival of our essential middle class...
Rabbits, endangered rhinos and the Dallas Safari Club
Have you ever heard of the rabbit hunter’s nightmare? A guy dreams that he and a few of his buddies have fanned out across some brushland to scare up and shoot a few hares. They kill a couple, but then, one of the hunting buddies who’d headed down a slope into a ...






