by Richard Eskow | Mar 28, 2011 | Blog
Scientists say there are trillions of parallel universes. Statistically, that means that must be one where some poor version of humanity lives in an inverted, mind-bending alternate reality where everything is backwards and nothing makes sense. But why did it have to...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 28, 2011 | Blog
Marketing works. If you put a lot of money into repeating a marketing message over and over and over, eventually people's brains absorb the message. Conservatives have put a lot of money and effort into convincing people that there is something wrong with Social...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 28, 2011 | Blog
Isn't it funny how the corporate conservatives always offer the same solutions to every problem? Even when the solution doesn't really have much to do with the problem? Iraq didn't attack us, and Social Security doesn't have anything to do with deficits. But the...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 28, 2011 | Blog
The nightmare for far too many is Cyborgs. The public fears HAL, the 2001 Space Odyssey computer that killed astronauts rather than forfeit its objective. So terrified of the sentient machine, citizens overlook the allegory. The soft-spoken, reasonable-sounding HAL...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 27, 2011 | Blog
If the wealth of the wealthy really bothered Americans, flacks for grand fortune enjoy declaring, our political system would be shaking something fierce. They don't see a whole lot of shaking. Should we? Apologists for inequality have an all-purpose defense for our...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 25, 2011 | Blog
In 1983 NY hotel-chain-owning billionaire Leona Helmsley said, "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes..." As our country migrates from democracy to plutocracy, this more and more appears to be official policy. Again and again we see tax cuts for the...
