
Jailed in the land of the free
In the middle of last year, due to a traffic violation, I spent a few months as a guest of our local county correctional facility.

Romney is not a vulture, he’s a parasite
Ever get that creepy feeling you are being followed? In 1969, a friend and I were walking down a street when that spooky feeling crept over me.

Barry Commoner put science to service of the people
The environmental movement lost one of its most passionate voices when Barry Commoner, ecologist and political activist, died on Sept. 30 at age 95.

Smiling, Romney stuck a dagger in your heart
That about sums up Mitt Romney's performance in Wednesday night's debate.
Eric Hobsbawm, great Marxist historian who kept his cool
I was saddened to hear of the death of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the great Marxist historians writing in the English language of my lifetime.
A plutocrat epiphany: All votes needn’t count
America's billionaires have realized they really don't have to bother convincing a majority of people to vote their way.

Romney’s wrong on deficits
According to Mitt Romney, the top economic priority is to put our fiscal house in order.

