The problem with our so-called “free market” is that it’s not free for you and me. It’s largely controlled by monopolies, which are free to inflate prices just because they can, letting gougers gleefully extract...
Today, CEOs of big corporations are playing the tricky “Inflation Blame Game!” Publicly, they moan that the pandemic is slamming their poor corporations with factory shutdowns, supply chain delays, wage hikes, and other increased costs....
Question: What does a packet of M&M’s and your local veterinarian have in common? Answer: Both are owned by Mars Inc., the global candy monopolist. Since the 1980s, we’ve seen massive consolidations in industry after...
For many people, the animals they adopt and love become more like family members than pets. We have deep relationships, with cats, dogs, parrots, goats, horses, and other fellow critters – who at least pretend...
What is so supreme about the Supreme Court? I mean besides being housed in an imposing marble building, being the final stop on America’s judicial train, and having its nine members look photogenically authoritarian in...
Ralph Waldo Emerson told about a guest who came to dinner and spent the entire evening prattling about his own integrity: “The louder he talked of his honor,” Emerson wrote: “the faster we counted our...
The opposite of courage is not cowardice – it’s conformity. And right there’s the problem with the Big Money establishment that now controls the national Democratic Party. This group certainly wants Democrats to be the...
I think we can now say the obvious: The Republican Party has gone bull goose bonkers. Its leaders have turned the once-proud GOP brand into an unprincipled gaggle of corporate profiteers, hatemongers, and screwball conspiracy...
As we know, “government ethics” can be a very slippery concept. That’s why We The People have insisted that every public official – from congress critters to dog catchers – swear to abide by some...
Barry Goldwater, considered a right-wing fringe candidate in 1964, won the Republican presidential nomination by declaring that “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!” But the GOP is now way beyond the fringe, declaring...