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...
Ho-Ho-Ho, wait till you hear about the gifts I’m giving to some of America’s power elites for Christmas. ...
Ahh, Christmas time! The joy of children’s laughter! A time for caring, sharing, and giving! So, why not make this Christmas a time for giving something that most American children, families, and communities are now...
Having grown up in a small-business family, I’m a big proponent of free enterprise. But I detest corporatism. The corporate powers try to co-opt the enterprise label, but in fact they are direct opposites and...
What a mess. I mean America’s corporatized, bureaucratic, profiteering medical system. It’s as though the Marx Brothers and Franz Kafka conspired to create it....
Let’s all sing the holiday classic: “All I want for Christmas… Is Something Not Made of Plastic.” Easier sung than done. Plastic is now ubiquitous in toys, electronics, tools, air, water… and us. And don’t...
Look out – the corporate cat is out of the bag! This particular “cat” is the fast-metastasizing software technology called “artificial intelligence.” A cadre of multibillion-dollar high-tech giants have surreptitiously been advancing AI for a...