WARNING: News headlines can give you a headache. For example, take typical headlines on today’s environmental stories: •Earth’s climate getting catastrophically hotter, faster • Greenhouse pollution increasing again •President calls global warming a “hoax” •Fracking...
One of the most obnoxious sounds in nature is the whine of a Wall Street banker. It’s a cross between the tantrum of a peevish brat and the blathering of a sputtering old plutocrat. Consider...
Interesting fact: While all federal officials take an oath that they will support the US Constitution, Supreme Court justices must also take a second (and very profound) oath of office. As New York Times judicial...
In my childhood years, I got to experience something I’ve cherished ever since: Starry nights. I was lucky to spend time during the summers on my Aunt Eula’s and Uncle Ernest’s tenant farm in Northeast...
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...