Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Meanings for the Day It's Labor Day, and the last three day weekend of the year-which ends with a day that was traditionally meant to honor those who labored in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. ...

Look in the Mirror Fascism is a word that gets tossed around a lot, but the actual meaning often gets lost. Webster's Dictionary defines fascism as "a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong auto...

This Land Was Made For You And Me (Part Two) Picking up where we left off yesterday, and our attempts to ruin Iowa land...here's the latest horrible idea...creating a series of tunnels across the stat...

This Land Was Made For You And Me (Part One) Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Iowa Department of Agriculture...some time later, the name was changed to include the phrase "...

More Than A Label We tend to like things simple in an ever-more-complicated world. With apologies to independents, libertarians, etc., we tend to think of this as black and white...or more accurately,...

Someone Needed To Think About This Somehow my email address got on some list, so that I now get five or six emails every day from a candidate asking for money. Sometimes the sender is supposedly a wel...

Good Fences Most places where I have lived have had a fence of one sort or another...they're pretty good about helping determine where lines are, both literally and figuratively. Once a dog became par...

Eat Your Veggies I had never heard of a crudit until about a week ago. I'm guessing most of you had not either. Granted, I'm not big into eating fruits and vegetables anyway, but the internet leads me...

So Much for Team Spirit I'm not sure how it would come up, but if you are hosting a gathering where Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former President Donald Trump will both be attending...it...

Sounding Familiar The Associated Press sent a breaking news alert late Sunday night, our time, which read in part as follows: Dateline, Islamabad: Pakistani police have filed terrorism charges against...