| Jan 13, 2016 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Jim Hightower sums up the logistical challenges behind building Donald Trump’s dream wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, I explain why the GOP front-runner’s pledge to “take their oil” is a terrible idea, and Donald...
| Jan 9, 2016 | Economy / BusinessFor thrilling sports action on television, it’s hard to top the sheer excitement of bowling, isn’t it? No, not that game with 10 pins. I’m talking about the passion and pageantry of college football’s bowl season. America’s elite, powerhouse...
| Jan 6, 2016 | Food / FarmingThey say that if you get up in the morning and swallow a live toad, nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day. Well, we Americans have just been fed a live toad by the World Trade Organization. Last May, the WTO — an oligarchic, autocratic governing...
| Dec 31, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyLet’s go to the scoreboard to see who’s winning the exciting presidential election media coverage game. The Tyndall Report, a non-partisan media monitoring firm that has been tracking the nightly news broadcasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC, found that Trump is...
| Dec 30, 2015 | Roundup|UncategorizedBefore 2015, we never had the privilege of seeing Donald Trump — a man who goes to great lengths to never muss up his hair — hawking baseball caps and becoming the GOP front-runner. Or watching Martin Shkreli — the ultimate legal drug kingpin — get busted for fleecing...
