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....
Remember when candidate Trump promised not only to wall-out all migrants crossing our Mexican border but also to make Mexico pay for his xenophobic wall? Well, Mexico hasn’t paid a peso… and won’t. So, he...
Big, high walls can be troublesome. Ask Humpty Dumpty. However, for a real-life, epic story about wall troubles, ponder the trials and tribulations of our very own president. He can’t seem to get his one,...
A jittery week at the polls, huh? One measure of our political anxiety is that liquor sales spiked this week. Also, it’s probably not a coincidence that a new breakthrough in drug legalization was made...
Good grief, cry many progressives – how has America turned so right-wing that a flabby, narcissistic, wannabe-dictator like Trump was even in the running? But wait – aside from a minority of racist, xenophobic, misogynistic...
Many years ago, literary critic Dorothy Parker skewered an unfortunate author with her sharp wit: “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly,” she said. “It should be thrown with great force!” That’s...
Here are some of the big public policies people clearly want, but lawmakers consistently ignore: Paid family leave time; restrict the power of Big Money in our elections; stop rent gouging by greedy corporate landlords;...
There’s a mournful Peggy Lee song that asks the existential question: “Is that all there is?” Some progressives are asking that when looking at whether to vote this year – Biden or Trump… is that...
As a Texas high schooler many moons ago, I was the 115-pound outside linebacker on the Denison “Yellow Jackets” football team. Go bugs! We won very few games, but we had spirit and some fun....