This week, AT&T announced its plans to buy their competitor T-Mobile. Now it’s up to regulators to approve the merger.Politicians pandering to the Tea Party love to talk about a free market. It sounds sexy. It sounds like wealth and freedom got married and had a perfect concept. If capitalism is a religion ““ free market is the savior. This [Read More]

Five years ago, on one of my “UFO Tours” (coined by comedian Bill Hicks, when you only appear in small towns in front of a handful of people so you start to doubt your own existence), I had a show in Burley, Idaho – home to some of the warmest and most hospitable inhabitants I’ve ever hung out with.Burley is [Read More]

Is our nation really right-of-center? It’s a quick throwaway-line parroted by Republican talking heads. According to Republicans, they speak for us – they are the voice of the “people” ““ and all Americans agree with the Right.Hardly.Just to pick one: if we actually were a right-of-center nation, Social Security would not be the immortal sacred cow it is now. Right-of-center [Read More]