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A Poem For the End Of the Year—Why Not?

Well, Here You Go—A skills Test For Immigrants—Problem Solved

Shaming the Hunter-Gatherer

World Peace Might Be a Stretch, but Kindness Is Within Reach

Democracy Is Over

Searching for Tammy Sue

Growth for the Sake of Growth Is the Ideology of the Cancer Cell

The Unintended Consequences of the Roberts Court

If Firefighters Fight Fires and Crimefighters Fight Crime, What Do Freedom Fighters Fight?

I’ve just received a very serious wake-up call, from China of all places.

“If You Torture Data Sufficiently It Will Confess to Anything”

Trust in God, But Botox Your Camel

The 80th Anniversary of “A Day That Will Live in Infamy” Slipped Right Past Me

In the Meantime, In Between Time

Is It Still a Choir If Only Two Voices Are Heard

There Is a Price, a Price for Everything

The Blind Side

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

Drifting Toward Anarchy

Measuring America in Our Dumbfoundedness

The Greek Is Writing Again

Consecutive Headlines

Why Do We Fail to Invest?

Neil Irwin at the NYTimes Is Confused

“I’m Not a Member of any Organized Political Party”

Judge Wilson Never Saw a Purple Cow

Things That Make No Sense to Me

Tax the Rich Is a Poor Man’s Solution

Copping Out on Cop26

I Just Love It When One of the Supremes Gets All Sniffy

Meet Wayne and Wendy Holman

An Open Letter to Joe Biden

When ‘Just-In-Time’ Isn’t

Taiwan, You’re on Your Own with China

Letting Men Handle the Abortion Issue

Panama Papers, Paradise Papers Pandora Papers and No Prosecutions

Wells Fargo Bank Shits the Bed Once Too Often

Trillions for War, but Not a Dime for Recovery

Plantation America

Our Military Re-Invents Warfare

Democrats and Republicans Each Fail in Specific Ways

America’s Periodic 9-11 Orgasm

Boeing and Unions—an Industrial Crash Landing

The Latest Study, Based on a Study That’s Based on a Study

Words Matter: ‘Human Resource’ Denigrates Employers

A Head Start in Recovering Our Moral Base

A Civilian Use for America’s Overfed Military

Blaming Biden for Bush Cheney and Rumsfeld’s War Crimes

U.S. Takes Heat after Leaving Afghanistan

Power Is as Much Consented to as Claimed

I Guess We’ve Turned the Page on Climate Change

Facebook Brings Us Bread and Circuses

An Interesting Take on American Health Care

Poor Choice to Comment on Afghan Withdrawal, Mr. Bush

Simone Biles Me-Too Moment

The Media Promotes Another Donald Trump in Tucker Carlson

Elon and the Missing Tesla Taxi

There Is No Monster Under the Bed in Critical Race Theory

Supreme Court Justice Kagan Lights Up the Sky in Dissent

Leaving Afghanistan Like a Thief in the Night

Time to Solve the China-Taiwan Crisis

A Little Late to the Republican Ilhan Omar Roast

Mark Zuckerberg—Hands Down, Most Useless American

Whoa! Don’t Wanna Teach No Controversial Issues

Red Alert for California Aquifers

Ho-Hum to a Climate ‘Point of no Return’

Your New Car—Don’t Even Bother Opening the Hood

Lowering the Ante with Putin Is Better Advice

Fixing the Tax Code Is a Piece of Cake

The Complicated Dynamics of American Unemployment

Watching the IOC Make an Ass Of Itself

Media’s Right to Destroy You for Money

World Population Slows and Yet We’re Not Satisfied

My Bone to Pick with Biden’s Secretary of Defense

Israel May Be Turning Palestine Into Afghanistan

Hold On, Pardner, Democracy Is Not Yet Dead

The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend

The Public Thirst For Outrage

I Had a ‘Real World’ Experience Just This Morning

That Annoying “Check Engine´ Light

A New Wyoming Strategy: Buy Our Coal Or Else We’ll Sue Ya

Stephen Collinson, Trump’s Inside Man at CNN

The GOP's Devotion to Trump Threatens to Destroy American Democracy

China Comes to America’s Military-Industrial Rescue

The Biggest American Swindle Ever Pulled Off

Israel—America’s Middle East Pain In the Ass

We’re Headed For the Last Roundup

Professional Golf Loses All Perspective in a Panic Move

Gm’s Last Guzzle of Gas

Why Do So Many Police Shoot-to-Kill?

The U.S. Supreme Court—Public Enemy #1

Agreeing With Microsoft’s Services Agreement--Under Duress

If You Lie Down With Dogs, You Get Fleas

The Fear-Factor and America’s White Majority

Will the Last Bee in the Hive Please Turn Out the Lights

America’s Fascination With Sports

The Pentagon and Its ‘Laser Focus’

We Value Your Privacy

Why Conspiracy Theories?

253 Bullshit Voting Bills Being Considered in 43 States

Do We Have the 'Right' to a Future?

What Stands in the Way of an Electric Car Revolution?

Tough Choices—Those Who Make Them and Those Who Receive

I’m Gonna Join the CIO—‘Cause Everyone I See I Owe

The GOP in Suspended Animation

Why Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong on a Wealth Tax

An Asshole and Killer, But “Our Asshole and Killer”

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the F-35 Store

The Secret Is Out—Big Business Runs America

Suppose Texas Was the Pennsylvania Turnpike

Qatar’s Killer Builders

Feel-Good Nazi Prosecutions

Madison Avenue Adverts and Biden’s Narrow Path to the Mid-Term Elections

Crazy as Pet Coons Over Bitcoin

We Can Pay More For a Dinner Out

Ever Hear of Blue Dog Democrats?

The Rich Telling Us $15 Will Break the Bank

Suppose We Pay Congress to Negotiate?

Justice Served Like a $50 Steak

Impeach a President, But Not Sue Fox News?

Elon, Maybe Time to Put a Cork in It?

The Courage to Quit a Political Base

The Weird Amazon Anti-Union Blitz

Supported By Your Base is Okay. Taken-Over By Your Base, Not So Much

In Olden Days, a Glimpse of Stocking…

Republicans, Trapped By Their Coalition

Let’s Insist On Taking Ownership of Language

It’s Not a Baseball Hall of Fame Without Pete Rose

What Makes Conspiracy Theorists Tick?

Pesticides Are Killing My Planet--and Yours

Big Business Grabs the Republican Party by the Throat

Is Globalization Over?

Why Is a Federal Minimum Wage a Problem and a Maximum Income Okay?

Zuckerberg Walks like a Dumb Kid and Quacks like a Dumb Kid

Why This Last-Minute Trump Blood-Lust?

It’s a Republic, Don’t Expect Democracy

Why Such Angst Over the Obvious?

Americans Want a 3rd Party. What They Don’t Want Is a 3rd Presidential Candidate.

Global Stock Markets Don’t Care What Happens on Planet Earth

An American Anti-Fascist Movement? Not Hardly.

Trump’s Train-Wreck in Washington

A ‘New Southern Strategy’

Let’s Carry Amtrak Brilliantly across the  21st Century

Everything That’s Wrong With Politics in a Single Headline

The A B C’s of Non-Government