Boney Fingers: Why Should Work Be Life-Sucking?
“Work your fingers to the bone — whadda ya get? Boney Fingers.” This 1960’s Hoyt Axton folk song mocking the vaunted virtue of working hard is being sung … Read more
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Furious Gun Owners Demand the Right to Marry Their Guns
Claiming discrimination, gun owners demand the right to marry their guns, “or else.” In a twist that gives new meaning to the term “shotgun wedding,” Second Amendment activists … Read more
This is Your Brain on Aphorisms: Loaded with Hollow Points
GOP gun control solutions are loaded with hollow points. The NRA is a house of worship, where the right-wing mass occurs. Children lie dead on the grounds of … Read more
Bovine Excrement
Our BS beef economy has producers and consumers at the mercy of a bovine meat cartel. It’s not widely discussed, but market concentration is a devastating double-edged sword, … Read more
Calling Joe Biden
Calling Joe Biden: Breaking the stranglehold that monopolies have on our economy is not a job for the politically meek. For years, as ever-bigger corporate combines grabbed ever-bigger … Read more
This is Your Brain on Aphorisms: Overinflation
Be careful the middle-class bubble doesn’t burst over overinflation! Greed accompanies Big Business. Cheap shots often become very expensive. Disinformation makes up for all it’s lie-abilities. Energy profiteers … Read more
Who’s in Control of Health Care?
The system will not improve unless there is democratic control of health care, which means something akin to Canada’s single-payer system. The central issue in health care can … Read more
A Rube Goldberg Inflationary Spiral
Rube Goldberg himself couldn’t have dreamed up a more fantastical diagram for obscuring a straightforward economic power grab. It seems like the price of everything from used cars … Read more
Rights of Nature: An Indigenous Idea
The Rights of Nature concept is an organic outgrowth of the reality that Earth and its many creatures and elements are inextricably connected. If an inanimate, self-serving, monopolistic … Read more
President Biden: ‘Many Reasons’ for Sending Troops to the Ukraine
Dispatches from SNN (Slobovian News Network) Pressed on the issue, the president listed many good reasons for sending American combat troops to the Ukraine. SNN Washington based correspondent … Read more
