Why Big Corporations Get Special Tax Breaks and You Don’t
America’s tax code is an arcane work of gobbledygook written in back rooms — so powerful corporations get special tax breaks and you don’t. Free market ideologues fabricate … Read more
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Senator Katie Britt Plays a Cruel Political Game to Exploit a Mexican Rape Victim
Poor Senator Katie Britt, Republican from Alabama, set up by her party’s operatives to do the GOP’s televised SOTU response. Poor Senator Katie Britt, Republican from Alabama. She … Read more
Katie Britt: New Cooking Show a Big Hit with Passive Aggressives
Cooking tips from a new TV Show starring Senator Katie Britt makes you want to whip someone (I mean, something) up! If you watched President Biden’s ‘Cognitive Test’ … Read more
What Is a Banker’s Promise Worth?
Banking giants do a backflip on their promise to do the right thing for humanity on climate change. Bruce King, former governor of New Mexico, often baffled people … Read more
My Conundrum: A New Job or a Trip to Australia?
Typos or Koala Bears in Australia – what would you do? In 1983 while living in Hawaii on my husband’s 3 year tour, I finally got a part-time job … Read more
The Right Wing’s Program to Solve Childhood Obesity
Iowa governor asserts food program “does nothing to promote nutrition” and could contribute to childhood obesity! This plotline could have come from one of Charles Dickens’ novels about … Read more
It’s a Dam Shame… for Trump’s Distant Cousin!
Dam Shame: Trump has his crazy wall, and Xi has his stupid dam. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. It’s just a dam shame about these two. One is … Read more
Rebranding CAFOs as PFOs Is Corporate BS
CAFOs — Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations — are nightmarish creatures of industrial agribusiness. A decade ago, Oklahoma’s countryside was literally infested with 626 massively polluting CAFOs — Concentrated … Read more
When Private Enterprise Fails, Public Enterprise Must Step Up
In cities all across America, private enterprise is driving poor and middle-class families out of their own towns. In cities all across America, an infiltration of private enterprise … Read more
Let’s Send All Billionaires to Mars!
Why not just send our “genius” billionaires to Mars, and let them report back? Unfortunately, in the short time we homo sapiens have existed on this 4.5-billion-year-old Planet … Read more
