Advertising has been characterized as rattling a stick in a bucket – a noisy cry for public attention. One example of this crass hucksterism is the rush by top executives of multibillion-dollar corporations to splatter...
‘Tis the season, right? Traditionally, this time of year celebrates spirituality and festivities – including Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa. In modern-day America, however, the Winter Solstice signals the faithful to gather from afar in monumental...
As a writer, I get stuck every so often straining for the right words to tell my story. Over the years, though, I’ve learned when to quit tying myself into mental knots over sentence construction,...
Corporate bosses across America have been sputtering in outrage at you working stiffs this summer, spewing expletives about the fact that while the US economy has been coming back… you haven’t! “Labor shortage,” they squeal,...
America certainly has an abundance of food (even though many Americans do not), yet we face a momentous choice of whether to pursue a food future rooted in the ethic of sustainable agriCULTURE – or...
Let’s talk Turkey! No, not the Butterball sitting in the Oval Office. I’m talking about the real thing, the big bird, 46-million of which we Americans will devour on this Thanksgiving Day. It was the...
Sometimes, when watching Congress in action, I can’t decide whether to laugh, cry, or check myself into an insane asylum. Not all lawmakers are political hacks, quacks, and corporate toadies – but that contingent does...
Here they come again – That gaggle of Washington politicos and pundits who keep assailing Joe Biden’s package of FDRish proposals that, at long last, would begin lifting up America’s infrastructure and working class. “Too...
At least since the invention of the wheel, people have fixed, tinkered with, and improved every device they’ve possessed. It’s been a human right. But after several thousand years, suddenly legal clauses are being tucked...
America’s economic and political inequality has led workaday Americans to exclaim: “The system is broken. Let’s fix it!” But there’s another version of this protest that I’m hearing more frequently these days: “The system is...