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,...
As many of its own members privately admit, Congress has become a pay-to-play lawmaking casino – closed to commoners, but offering full-service access to corporate powers. But there’s another government entity that’s even more aloof...
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, stupid political ideas beget even stupider political tactics. For example, a faction of right-wing Republicans wants to stop public discussion and actions involving two ideas they hate: (1) racism always has been and still...
Excuse me for using explicit language here, but it seems to me that today’s most vulgar expression of right-wing extremist dogma is its unhealthy obsession with banning books. It’s a political perversion that, ironically, its...
There’s a new “ism” creeping into America’s vocabulary… and into our social order: Bossism. Being a boss can merely mean you’re in charge – but in this age of glaring inequality and autocratic corporate rule,...
The craziest political word of the year is “woke,” as in “Don’t be woke!” It’s a command barked by far-right-wing fomenters of culture war and their political toadies. Their intent is to demonize and shut...
Why, you might ask, is there so much labor activism these days? Right-wing Republicans claim it’s the work of union agitators fomenting class warfare. Bovine excrement! Rather, it’s the accumulation of years of actual class...
Tis the season of gift giving – including Time magazine handing out its somewhat pompous “Person of the Year” award. My beef with this gift is that it perpetuates the fallacy that social progress comes...
If you sometimes wonder whether Congress is obtuse, narcissistic, or just stupid, Sen. Joe Manchin is evidence that the answer is: Yes. Plus, these days, the West Virginia corporate Democrat is mad – in both...