Corporate Giants Say You Don’t Mind Their Price Gouging. Do You?
It’s pure corporate larceny, also known as price gouging, adding up to a stunning level of unearned profit for the perpetrators. According to an old saying, “You can’t … Read more
Jim Hightower
Here’s a Wild Idea That’s Taking Root
Students are organizing locally with a wild idea that makes a difference and makes a statement. Growing up, I absorbed a lot of values from my Ol’ Texas … Read more
The Billionaires Behind School Privatization
The ultra-rich love to enact their extremist right-wing policy, including with school privatization. If you’re trying to enact an extremist right-wing policy, but the public keeps rejecting it, … Read more
A Supreme Court of Ethical Weasels
Far-right Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett now supports a vague veil of an ethics code for the Court’s moral weasels. Wow! A couple of Supreme Court weasels … Read more
Chap Ambrose Versus Elon Musk – I’m Betting on Chap
A neighbor and former Musk admirer, Chap Ambrose, rallies local opposition. There is nothing quite as pitiful as whiny billionaires. And the whiniest of all is the richest … Read more
Trucking Industry Wails About Its Labor Shortage: Here’s a Solution
Seemingly intractable problems sometimes have an obvious solution – here’s one for the trucking industry. Seemingly intractable problems sometimes have an obvious solution standing right in front of … Read more
The Contemptible Thievery of Gentrification
“Gentrification” describes the greed of speculators who oust middle-and-low-income families to create trendy enclaves for the rich. Over time, words with beautiful meanings occasionally get degraded into ugliness. … Read more
Let’s Get Real: Billionaires Are Nuts!
Let’s face it, billionaires are nuts: their grand schemes of social engineering almost always go badly for the rest of us. When megalomanic, multibillionaire barons of industry suddenly … Read more
Vapid GOP ‘Debate’ Reveals Why Big Money Politics Sucks
We’ve always known that big money politics is bad for America, now the GOP highlights why for all to see. Peggy Lee struck a mournful chord with her … Read more
Why the GOP is Becoming a Rabid Clique of Political Veterinarians
The GOP is conceding that they are now captives of a rabid clique of ideological extremism and outright nutballism. Ohio voters scored a big election victory for women’s … Read more
