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The corporate gold rush to an AI future is about good old-fashioned greed. Not that it matters, but sometimes I wonder if the billionaire potentates...
The entire class of uber-rich corporate royals seems to suffer from irrepressible jerkism. Does becoming a billionaire turn one into an insufferable...
He likes to hurl pejoratives like “lunatic” at his enemies, but lunacy is actually Donald Trump’s stock in trade. Some presidents are known as...
Beware billionaires who profess allegiance to America’s democratic values: their allegiance is to themselves. What a show, huh? Big-name...
Musk gave $157 million to Trump’s last election campaign — a clear signal that the system is rigged against us common folk. From Q-Anon nuttiness...
Trump is actually paying companies to not produce wind energy, paying off their contract in a stupid and ignorant waste of money. Once upon a time,...
When they fail, they want us to save their bacon by demanding that “the public” deserves a government bailout. Step right up, folks! Please...
In the good ol’ days, if you gave a million bucks to a candidate, the donation was scandalous news — political bribery! Remember long, long ago in...
Has your family consumed its lump of coal today? In one of the most perverse Big Government moves ever, last year President Trump proclaimed an...
The present DOJ has its mission backwards — providing protection for corporate abusers from people seeking justice. A core role of the U.S....
Millions of artificial intelligence robots are being installed in nearly every workplace, thanks to the new AI billionaires. Other than the fact that...
Looks like the real tools were the workers, blithely discarded now that Stanley Tools has orchestrated a move out of the U.S. In this day of AI smart...
Democrat insiders want to rebrand the party as ideologically moderate, but that’s a mistake. Washington’s Democratic Party establishment keeps...
The Supreme Court decreed Trump’s tariffs illegal. Consumers paid the bulk of them, so we’re due some refunds, right? Years ago, Ray Charles...
Mingy CEOs have been refusing to accommodate their pregnant employees. “Mingy” is a useful word. It merges stingy with mean, pretty well summing...
The “Great Wall” is the xenophobic piece of nastiness pushed by Stephen Miller, Trump’s tyrannical anti-immigrant chief. Even in this ugly era...
AI profiteers want to divert vast amounts of rural land, water and energy to build and run their Orwellian empires. There’s a clique of plutocratic,...
“Money is like manure. It only works if you spread it across the grassroots.” Given the increasing dominance of right-wing politics by arrogant,...
That glorious future of “The Metaverse,” promised to us by Silicon Valley’s tech and financial geniuses, has been pronounced DOA. Our future was...
A ballot initiative to put a one-time wealth tax on the uber-rich has billionaires screaming, “Taxation without representation!” We Americans are...
In their new doomsday compound, each of the uber-rich will be hunkered down in what’s been dubbed a “Billionaire Bunker.” Trust me when I say...
George Orwell spoke bluntly about the nefarious nature of advertising, calling it “the rattling of a stick inside a swill
If I were doing some of the stuff the ICE masked men are doing, I’d want to cover my face, too. Except for the masked men Zorro and Batman, people...
If you’re ever asked to define the word oxymoron, just say “Congressional ethics.” People instinctively burst out guffawing at the
Woody Guthrie’s ‘Mean Talking Blues’ is a perfect theme song for President Donald Trump’s “Project 2025.” Years ago, Woody Guthrie wrote...
Our country’s magnificent National Park System has been called “America’s greatest idea.” These 433 treasures — along with our rich
Our country’s magnificent National Park System has been called “America’s greatest idea.” These 433 treasures — along with our rich...
My life goals have never included making a lot of money… and I’ve certainly succeeded in that regard. Yet I do consider myself rich. Not Wall...