Bat Sh*t Crazy

Bat Sh*t Crazy

There are way too many screaming heads filling our TV screens, shouting inflammatory nonsense and predicting iminent disaster on all fronts. Once common decency and rationality no longer earn sufficient advertising dollars, network ratings strategy becomes a...
Catch The Spirit

Catch The Spirit

In many countries, only monarchs or governments are legally entitled to pull resources out of the earth; the United States is one of the few nations where private land owners hold title to anything above and below ground on their property. Selling or leasing mineral...
Truth in Underwriting

Truth in Underwriting

There’s a new treaty in town, and it’s name is TAFTA. The Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) between the US and the EU intends to create the world’s largest free trade area, “protect” investment and remove “unnecessary regulatory...
Super Pac Man

Super Pac Man

Now that our government has “re-opened” after our recent two-week-long political mediapalooza, the sky-is-falling crowd gets to choke on the revelation that the whole Congressional fracas was essentially a non-event (apart from some screwed-over Federal...
An Orange Clockwork

An Orange Clockwork

In our increasingly litigious society we seem determined to tempt fate by placing our faith in the wisdom of those who run our court system. But that might not always be such good idea; there’s a lot of wacky shit going on behind the judge’s bench. One...
The Pumpkin Spice Must Flow

The Pumpkin Spice Must Flow

So after decades of hiding the facts and sidestepping the issue, our favorite Federally-funded arm of the commercial chemical industry— the FDA — has at last grudgingly admitted that practically all chicken meat sold in the United States now contains everyone’s...