Recent polling confirms what you’d hear if you talked to people at most any Chat & Chew Café across America – namely, our political system is broken. In fact, nearly all of us feel that...
There’s greed… and then there’s the nauseating greed of profiteering corporations that make a killing – literally – by knowingly contaminating people’s water, air, land, and families. Such rank, moral corruption is hard to fathom…...
Dare we think that the New Year holds tremendous promise for progressive change? Yes! As practically every pundit notes, Trump’s White House menagerie of billionaires, grifters, haters, prima donnas, and ideological kooks has soured even...
As we head into a momentous election year, with state and national legislative seats up for grabs, even let-them-eat-cake Republicans are scrambling to sound sympathetic to today’s hard-hit working-class families. Of course, tongue-clucking concern doesn’t...
In keeping with the season, I offer a little political anecdote about Christmas. More specifically, it’s about the moral teachings of the biblical Jesus, which formed the ethical foundation of Christmas and gives Christianity itself...
The high priests of Holy High Tech are in a huff, wailing that they’re being bothered by you busybodies, Luddites, and commoners – ie, The People. Grandiose gabillionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos assert...
Ho-Ho-Ho, wait till you hear about the gifts I’m giving to some of America’s power elites for Christmas. ...
Ahh, Christmas time! The joy of children’s laughter! A time for caring, sharing, and giving! So, why not make this Christmas a time for giving something that most American children, families, and communities are now...
Having grown up in a small-business family, I’m a big proponent of free enterprise. But I detest corporatism. The corporate powers try to co-opt the enterprise label, but in fact they are direct opposites and...
What a mess. I mean America’s corporatized, bureaucratic, profiteering medical system. It’s as though the Marx Brothers and Franz Kafka conspired to create it....