The great thing about politics in a free (sorta) country is there are so many ways to be wrong. There’s the QAnon approach, which calls for believing reality is a giant sci-fi…
Odds and ends from my inbox. Mostly odds. Go with Joe. Maine’s congressional delegation backs President Biden’s agenda most of the time. But the term “most” is a little misleading. According to…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (motto: Not Particularly Healthy and Nobody is Too Sure About the Human Part, Either) is a bureaucratic cesspool. Its only purpose is to make…
It was November 1994, and I was standing outside a polling place in southern Maine interviewing folks as they prepared to cast their ballots in a hotly contested congressional race. A little…
Maine’s lame excuse for spring has arrived. Time to clean the fungus out of my in-box. Cinematic tax breaks. There are a few things on which state governments should never waste taxpayers’…
These are tough times for bigots. It’s no longer acceptable to make crude remarks about women, let alone trying a little unwanted fondling. Such behavior could cost a sexist pig his job…
If you smoked pot back before it was legal, got caught by the cops and hauled before a judge, there’s a record of that. Fortunately for you, that record is stored in…
“Open” is a word with mixed connotations. Open government is good. It gives us a clear view of all the bad things our elected leaders are doing. Open marriage not so much.…
The people who run the news media are mostly jerks. But to keep that in context, the people who run the government are even bigger jerks. The most arrogant of opinion columnists…
I don’t worry much about annoying people. Politicians? If they don’t have thick skins, they should find another hobby. Readers? If it wasn’t for hate mail, I’d get no mail at all.…