To live healthier and more financially free — by Mark Cramer, author of Old Man on a Green Bike: Chronicles of a Self-Serving Environmentalist We can be conditioned to believe any absurdity: like a human being needs to power a two-ton hunk of steel to get around. The annual cost of owning a car hovers near $10,000, including…

Infamous Welfare Queen Attacks Pregnant Daughter-in-Law — Roger LeBlanc (author of The Lazy Bettor’s Guide to the Kentucky Derby) Warning: I’m about to write on a subject I know almost nothing about. The British royal family. Recently my friend Oprah* (* Facebook friend) interviewed two younger members of the British royal family, now living in the USA…

Mark Cramer (author of Old Man on a Green Bike: Chronicles of a Self-Serving Environmentalist) Here’s a Green New Deal that deficit hawks who squawk at big government spending will rejoice in defending. As with the original addiction-recovery methods, this 12-step program would detox our society from Facile fuels Colossal…

A Draconian Solution to Overpopulation and Its Repercussions Mark Cramer (author of Old Man on a Green Bike: Chronicles of a Self-Serving Environmentalist) This planet cannot sustain us all, at least not at the current rate that we’re consuming and debasing its resources. …

Thomas Friedman and Fareed Zakaria Confronted — Mark Cramer (author of Old Man on a Green Bike: Chronicles of a Self-Serving Environmentalist) In 2003 a bipartisan Big Lie was abetted by political pundits, and these pundits have paid no price for their journalistic malpractice. All attention today rests on the Big Lie that the US presidential election…

“Can I Con You One More Time Before I Go?” — Roger LeBlanc (author of The Punter’s Tale) Most big-budget romance movies begin with eventual lovers not liking one another. In a typical opening scene they meet and their first impressions are bad…really bad. The plot then moves toward reconciliation as the lovers discover each other’s finer qualities. Ta da! Love…

A foreign anthropologist exposes our myths — Mark Cramer (author of Old Man on a Green Bike: Chronicles of a Self-Serving Environmentalist) To better understand how tribal myths led to the storming of the U.S. Congress, Welcome To Fakeville! sought the opinions of an anthropologist, Gurb. …

Roger LeBlanc and Mark Cramer (author of Old Man on a Green Bike: Chronicles of a Self-Serving Environmentalist) During 2020 Welcome To Fakeville! sifted fact from fiction and, at times, crafted fiction resembling fact. We lobbied for change, lampooned the corrupt old guard and never told a lie. In addition…

With New Year’s resolve, human energy can heal us and defeat climate change — Mark Cramer (author of Old Man on a Green Bike: Chronicles of a Self-Serving Environmentalist) In the 1970s visionary iconoclast Ivan Illich accurately predicted, “Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on a society like a drug that is physically…