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...
Right-wing Republicans and corporate Democrats have become a pathetic bunch of “No-can-do Nancys.” Faced with an economy reeling from the plutocratic policies that these same lawmakers pushed down upon us, they are now whimpering that...
Let’s talk pills. To treat everything from allergies to heart problems, half of Americans take a prescription medicine every day, and nearly all of us reach for the pill bottle on occasion. It’s perfectly safe,...
Hunters have come up with euphemisms to make what they do sound… well, less unpleasant. For example, animals aren’t killed, they’re “harvested.” Corporate America is now adopting this verbal ploy, for CEOs urgently need to...
In CorporateSpeak, there are no “job cuts.” Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.” Now, though, corporate wordsmiths will need a whole new thesaurus of euphemisms, for masses of job cuts are coming...