Here’s a reality that the Powers That Be keep trying to put out of sight and out of mind: Poverty. Yes, right here in our own fabulously-rich USA. Don’t tell anybody, but millions of American...
Public leadership doesn’t mean that the “leader” has to have all the solutions, but instead must be open to others with problem-solving ideas. That was one of Franklin Roosevelt’s great strengths when he came into...
Wow, here’s some blockbuster economic news from Team Trump: The income gap between the rich and the rest of us is over! How do we know this? Because Scott Bessent says so. Who’s he? Secretary...
“If you find that you’ve dug yourself into a hole, the very first thing to do is quit digging.” That old country saying has a newly-urgent relevance to us today, for Big Tech, Big Finance,...
The great thing about “art towns” is, of course, the artists who live there and their art. So why are so many art town officials deliberately and stupidly driving artists out of town? I live...
It’s no secret that voters are increasingly disgusted by today’s extremist, right-wing Republican lawmakers. But less known is the fact that extremist GOP lawmakers are even more disgusted by you voters! They’re so disgusted that...
Until recently, corporate executives were eager to demonstrate how “green” they were. But then came Trump, trashing the very idea of a green economy. So, to appease the vengeful Republican, obsequious CEOs rushed to dump...
Not that it matters, but sometimes I wonder if the billionaire potentates of artificial intelligence ever wonder why they’ve become so despised. I doubt it, since introspection doesn’t seem to be in the DNA of...
Here’s an interesting fact: Dinosaurs dominated Earth for 165 million years – and they assumed they always would. Which brings us to… well, us. We bipedal, far-ranging, Homo sapien primates have certainly established our dominance over...
Does becoming a billionaire turn one into an insufferable jerk, or is that an innate quality they bring to the position? Big-name billionaires – like Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg – literally flaunt their irrepressible jerkism,...