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...
Keep On Trucking’ was an iconic underground cartoon created in 1968 by comic master Robert Crumb. Featuring various big-footed men strutting jauntily through life, the caricature became widely popular as an expression of young people’s...
The recent traffic-clogging protests by truck drivers in the US and Canada is about drivers being angry over COVID-19 vaccine mandates – right? Uh… no. That’s the line being put out by right-wing extremists trying...