Warning Signs For The US Economy
The sluggish, but consistent, recovery in the US economy has officially been going on for nearly eight full years. That is...
Monthly Archive: April 2017
How Low Can They Go?
As the protests over Trump’s tax returns happen all over the country today, the Huffington Post has an article on the...
Natural Weekends – Migratory Birds In South Texas
Let’s go back to the Texas Gulf Coast again and the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center in Port Aransas.
NHL Playoff Predictions
I’m a little late out of the gate with this one as the NHL playoffs have already begun and I haven’t...
Tribalism Is Not The Cause Of Current Polarization – It's The Republican Party
There have been a myriad of stories lately that attempt to explain the partisan polarization in terms of tribalism. Party identification...
Student Loan Firm Spent Years Engaging In Predatory Loans To Boost Profits
Back in 2014, a company call Navient was spun off from the SLM Corporation (SLMC), the student loan agency known as...
Trump's Coal Promises Will Bring More Misery And Fewer Jobs
Everyone, even the people who live and work there, knows that coal jobs are not coming back to coal country, despite...
Today's Corporate Criminals Are Partners At KPMG
I just love how what is essentially corporate criminal behavior get described as just some kind of small ethical breach. We...
Growing Use Of Private Security Indicates A Failing Democracy And Two-Tiered Society
One of the signs of an oligarchic plutocracy is the fact that the elites always feel in danger and require constant...