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At least you can eat a hippo

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday May. 24

Industrial foods and farming methods and your brain

Forrest Johnson  |  Friday May. 18

Band-aids for the problems, not solutions

Forrest Johnson  |  Friday May. 11

Bad food is behind the anxieties of the conservatives

Forrest Johnson  |  Friday May. 4

The revolution of logic and reason must talk to the other side of the brain

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Apr. 26

A whole bunch of people use a different part of the brain than I do

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Apr. 19

Take populism back from the flim flam man

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Apr. 12

National Union of Friendly Americans under assault—again

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Apr. 5

Belief in the Backwards Doctrine moving U.S. toward third-world status

Thursday Mar. 29

The world has gone crazy

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Mar. 22

There’s a world of worry and fear out there

Forrest Johnson  |  Friday Mar. 16

All we can do is try to be nice to each other

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Mar. 8

National Union of Friendly Americans under assault—again

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Mar. 1

The free market has me suspicious about the food market

Forrest Johnson  |  Friday Feb. 17

Kill the unions and the working class and bow to the economocracy

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Feb. 2

Weeding the garden and the political climate seem to merge in my backyard

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Jan. 26

My debt ceiling will be raised once again

Forrest Johnson  |  Friday Jan. 20

The snow dance will be applied soon

Forrest Johnson  |  Friday Dec. 30

Poor thinking a tough nut to crack

Forrest Johnson  |  Friday Dec. 16

The employees lose their jobs when the smoke clears

Forrest Johnson  |  Friday Dec. 9

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