Some presidents are known as uplifting orators; our present president is known for petulant putdowns. Periodically, Trump discovers a new pejorative that he considers clever, so he wears it out attacking his endless list of...
Executives climbing the corporate ladder to the top seem to lose IQ the higher up they get. That might explain why John Deere’s top corporate bosses have imposed an astonishingly stupid policy on America’s farmers....
Here they come again: Billionaires, wailing that Congress must – MUST! – act immediately to slash the monthly Social Security checks that middle-class and poor retirees count on. Plutocratic elites and their anti-government ideologues periodically...
What a show, huh? Big-name corporations went all out this July 4th with a patriotic ad blitz professing their devotion to America’s democracy. But it amounted to a Firecracker of Hypocrisy, for many of these...
America’s legal system proclaims that even lifeless man-made, paper entities called “corporations” are endowed with the human rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But if a fabricated, inanimate, corporate thing can have...
From Q-Anon nuttiness to JD Vance’s “Deep State” quackery, wacko right-wing conspiracies have oozed into the center Republican politics. But don’t let their goofiness obscure the fact that there is indeed a very real plot...
High-dollar corporate executives and Wall Street bankers keep telling us that it’s lonely at the top. Well, they should try toiling at the bottom of America’s pay scale. The radical rise of inequality in our...
Question: How many legs does a dog have if you count the tail as a leg? Answer: Four – calling the tail a leg doesn’t make it one. Likewise, calling a small group of partisan...
Sometimes, little things can be a big deal. For example, in considering ways to help protect Mother Earth from global environmental rampages by us humans, look out your window. In many cities and most suburbs,...
Once upon a time, conservative ideologues opposed government interference in the holy magic of the marketplace. Take energy policy, for example. Right-wing cheerleaders of fossil fuels demanded that government must keep its fat thumb off...