| Oct 25, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyThis is going to go down as the Year of the Screwball Election. Never before have so many nutcases, whackos, and practicing lunatics come out of their caves to run for public office. (Not all of them came from caves, of course. Some tied sheets together and climbed...
| | Food / FarmingThe big brand-name corporations love advertising. They love it so much that they spend some $170 billion a year in our country to put all sorts of slicken and hokum on their products, and on their own public image. But there is one kind of advertising that these...
| | Economy / BusinessMy accountant Found a niche; Lowered my taxes, Though I’m rich. Taxes, like death, may be certain. Unlike death they can be finagled. Finagling works best if you’re rich and can join with brethren to hire accountants, lawyers, lobbyists, and politicians to...
| Oct 18, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyIf life were an old-fashioned movie serial we’d be at the scene where Barack Obama is tied to railroad tracks while an oncoming train sounds in the distance. And if it were a movie, he’d escape. I’m not sure how, but at the last moment he’d...
| | Peace / SecurityRecently, I found myself humming the Old Beatles song: “Poppy Fields Forever.” Okay, John Lennon’s lyric was not about poppies, but strawberries. However, I started humming the song because I was thinking about our country’s...
