Right wingers and evangelicals loudly proclaim their love and concern for the unborn. Left wingers accuse them of ONLY caring about the unborn, and possibly about themselves. Nobody else.

In any case, the unborn are in deadly danger and nobody is coming to their aid. Wealthy oil profiteers are destroying…

In 2004, the oil giant BP launched an ad campaign promoting a carbon footprint calculator, enabling YOU to take responsibility for global warming. So that those actually responsible — like BP — wouldn’t need to.

It worked. To this day, the $250 million campaign continues to pay dividends. Even now…

and here’s something you can do about it.

AN OPEN SECRET

In the United States, “representative government” is a sham. And it’s not a secret. Nobody denies that there’s a whole industry of bribery and influence peddling. K Street is famous for it. …

I have an undergraduate degree in economics and an MBA. When I took my first macroeconomics class, and heard about the models of the economy they were using, I was appalled.

I stood up and said something like this:

“I understand that you need to simplify to model something as…

I’ve changed course. For awhile, I’ve been writing to political and business leaders, with empathetic letters saying I understand why they’ve done what they’ve done (I can see other points of view), but now it’s time to admit mistakes and reverse course. …

Please also see my earlier essay, “What the Children Have Figured Out.”

There are two groups of adults: the handful of super-wealthy billionaires who have spent decades buying politicians and making policy, and the vast majority who are in charge of nothing.

Both groups largely understand what’s going on and…

Adults are childish and children are mature. It’s that simple. It’s obvious. The evidence is everywhere.

And children, worldwide, have figured it out.

Oh, there are exceptions. Some adults are mature and some children are childish. But where it counts, on the big things, the situation is clear.

And nowhere…

How about you take a look at what’s happening in the world and in your life and YOU decide what to focus on?

After years of listening to hyperbolic ideologues and self-important billionaires and various reality-challenged zealots filling the airwaves and the internet with batshit crazy nonsense and egotistical bullcrap…