George Bush has fixed our ailing economy!

Thanks, President Bush, for taking care of the problem!  Now all let's get back to our wasteful, ignorant, self-indulgent American lives!  Let's add another new big screen TV to the credit card! What else is a reader of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch supposed to think when scanning this headline: "Stock…

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Prisoners to reenact murders for a good cause

Prison Performing Arts is a seventeen-year-old, multi-discipline, literacy and performing arts program that serves incarcerated adults and children.  The organization is dedicated to enriching the lives of adults and young people in the Missouri criminal and juvenile justice systems.  The organization fosters individual and social change by providing current and…

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The idea of a benevolent “Free Market” is exposed as a dangerous fraud

At a Salon.com article entitled "The corporate financiers are wrong," Joe Conason says the obvious about "free market" fanatics because it is necessary to say the obvious about "free market" fanatics, given that they've been so successful at promulgating their drivel.  What is the obvious thing we now need to…

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