Although the sun is an essential life force, we need to protect ourselves from its relentless glare. Sunglasses? Check. Beach...
Month: February 2024
In 1863, humorist Artemus Ward wrote a satire on hucksterism, making up a tale of Abe Lincoln being asked to...
“Corporate crises consultants” (yes, there are such creatures) have patented a formula allowing their wrongdoing clients to champion reform while...
“Step right up, folks, and bite into the wondrous future of meat!” Cheap meat! Ethical meat! Animal meat you love...
Here’s our Big Word of the day: Extraterritoriality. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting that rulers in one state...
I no longer receive my local newspaper, the Austin-American Statesman. Oh, the paper still comes, but it’s just paper, minus...
Bruce King, former governor of New Mexico, often baffled people with his convoluted use of words. Like the time he...
Perhaps you heard about the recent surge of invasive foreigners into Eagle Pass, Texas – the Rio Grande border town...
This plot line could have come from one of Charles Dickens’ novels about upper-class depravity: “Miserly governors refuse to provide...
Heeere they come again: The wrecking crew of Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts & Thomas – the six plutocratic judicial...