In olden times, before unlimited numbers of free-range office-seekers were allowed to be-fowl - er, befoul - the airwaves with messages less clever than that poultry - er, paltry - pun, the…
I've been thinking about what makes a first-rate kook.
There are at least 20 announced and unannounced candidates for governor, and we certainly don't want to elect one of them, only to discover…
There's an easy way to make everyone happy.
Well, not exactly happy. It’s more like an easy way to make everyone mildly unhappy. But that's an improvement over the current situation in which…
It's good to be known as an optimist.
It keeps people from realizing you're actually a boob.
That's the guiding principle behind the Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission, a state panel of experts on trends…
You wouldn’t buy a suit from a tailor who wears ill-fitting clothes. You wouldn’t take suggestions for summer-reading from somebody who’s illiterate. You wouldn’t cast your ballot for a candidate who’s completely…
I don’t care if my state representative is sneaking off to Argentina to romance some exotic mystery woman. Given my rep’s track record at the State House, he’s unlikely to be any…
There are some important qualities I’d like to see in the next governor of Maine. But they’re all pretty boring. So let’s get to what I wouldn’t like to see. I don’t…
I believe in having clear and achievable goals. For instance, my goals for today are: 1. Avoid work. 2. Drink beer. Residing at the opposite end of the goal spectrum are most…
In 2008, Sean Faircloth, then a state representative from Bangor, lost his bid to become Maine’s attorney general, mostly because lots of legislators questioned his credibility. When your credibility is so shaky…
The first rule for running a successful race for governor is never to say anything of substance about anything. Taking even the most innocuous of positions (Do you think Maine should have…