Vegan Confessions

Vegan Confessions

If you invented a pill that offers long life, good health, and a body to be proud of, you’d make a fortune. Bottles would fly off the shelves. Suggest a change in behavior that achieved the same result, however, and what do you get? Catcalls, derisive comments,...
Food Stamp Foolishness

Food Stamp Foolishness

Maybe you thought the lowest possible point of Republican miserliness was reached when Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Agriculture proposed that ketchup be counted as a vegetable in the school lunch program. If so, you’ve not taken a peek at the GOP’s...
The Pipeline from the Black Lagoon

The Pipeline from the Black Lagoon

Oil from tar sands Is our gripe; Hard to keep it In the pipe. Poor TransCanada. Everything looked so promising. The company had just finished drawing a line across Saskatchewan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, and Oklahoma, with hardly a peep of protest. The folks...
The Lineup: Week of April 30-May 6, 2012

The Lineup: Week of April 30-May 6, 2012

In this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Emira Woods puts Charles Taylor’s war crimes in Liberia and Sierra Leone into context and David Elliot delivers a moving college commencement address to today’s debt-ridden grads. Get all this and more in...