To cope with the eminent danger posed by today’s arrogant, profiteering AI billionaires – Donald Trump says that the only thing America needs is a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT!” Well, yes – let’s...
It’s one thing for someone like me say that the Republican Party has dived into the abyss of political delirium. But it’s another thing when the Party itself confirms its collective delirium for two whole...
A West Texas cowboy saying advises: “Never sign nothing by neon.” But that’s exactly the key operational method of the AI data center hucksters who’re foisting their exploitative, multibillion-dollar scams on local folks all across...
Greg Abbott, the right-wing hack who is governor of Texas, probably doesn’t know what a “petard” is, but he’s now been hoisted by a big one. “Hoist on a petard” is a Shakespearean phrase referring...
At a time when communities across America are literally under siege by secretive data center powers intent on seizing our land, water, electric grid, and even our local democracy – that’s when you’re grateful to...
Growing up, I received a wealth of working-class values from my parents, including this nugget about egalitarianism: “Nobody is better than you,” they said, “and you’re no better than anybody else.” That’s the ethical underpinning...
Let’s all gather ‘round the campfire, Buckaroos and let Ol’ Cactus Jim here tell you about some of today’s hardy, hard-working cowboys. Yes, those manly men who live free-spirited, yippy-ti-yi-yo, cowboy lives out in the...
Memo from corporate headquarters to staff: “Notice – the beatings will continueuntil employee morale improves.” That corporate joke would also fit the perverse ethic of the Republican Party’s latest assault on homeless Americans. Believe it...
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...