Charles Dickens, writing about the inequality and social turmoil leading to the French Revolution, noted that “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” So it is today, with the horrific...
I love those nature shows that probe the behavior and intelligence of birds, elephants, and other fellow creatures. However, there’s one exotic critter the shows have ignored, and it’s crying out for analysis: Humanoid super-richinoids....
Our society has coined expressions like “philanthropist” to encourage and hail people’s charitable spirit. Look on the flip side of that shiny coin of generosity, however, and you’ll find that its base substance is societal...
There’s a general sentiment today that multimillionaire corporate chieftains are pigs. But I think that’s unfair. To pigs. Those oinkers are remarkably intelligent animals with a sense of social responsibility to the common good of...
Monty Bennett was just another faceless right-wing millionaire on the long list of high-dollar donors to Donald Trump – until he suddenly surfaced in April as the nation’s biggest bagger of government cash in the...
Here’s how I feel about the value of our nation’s postal service: “The humble Post Office is a community fixture, a civic inheritance, a rural lifeline, and one of the last vestiges of a shared...
One thing we’ve learned for sure this year is that no national crisis is too awful to keep Trump & Company from exploiting it for their plutocratic political purposes. COVID-19 is a God-Awful crisis, but...
As horrible as the COVID-19 crisis is, it has brought out the best in the American people – the selflessness of front-line nurses and doctors, for example, as well as the generous community spirit of...
In this horrible time of economic collapse, it is truly touching to see so many corporate chieftains reaching out in solidarity with the hard-hit working class. We know they’re doing this because they keep telling...
What’s the matter with the post office? The US Postal Service, I mean – the corporate hierarchy that runs this enormously popular public institution. Yes, I know that USPS has lost revenue it traditionally got...