Now, maybe, I know how people feel who plan to vote for the orange guy for president. It’s not just that they feel ignored. We all learned to live with that in…
Here are two names I never thought I’d put together: Ted Cruz and Rushworth Kidder. The news last month from Cleveland, spurred by the former, put me in mind of the latter.…
For 16 years, my longest workday was Saturday. At the plant by 3 a.m. to load for the farmers markets, on the road by 5. Home by 3 p.m., unloaded and counted…
A friend who owns a business in Waterville, where Gov. Paul LePage was mayor, warned me when LePage entered the 2010 Republican primary for governor. “He’s a bully,” my friend said. He…
My parents were two rare Missourians who voted for Thomas E. Dewey for President. My mother couldn’t fathom anyone, even in Missouri, voting for Harry S Truman. So, one day on the…
We can easily bemoan the decline in the quality of news reporting. There is lots to lament as real journalism has fallen victim to the twin terrors of technology and partisan “news”…
When asked why they were voting to leave the European Union, many Brits used the words “too many” in their answers. Pundits have focused on the “too many” that preceded the word…
High school students are frequently urged by adults, including many who should know better, such as counselors and teachers, to pursue “practical” college majors, such as business or “communications.” Here are three…
“Yasser Arafat never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” So said Abba Eban, Israel’s foreign minister about 10 years ago. Arafat, the Palestinian leader, had just scotched a deal that had…
Sometimes, we see two sides of someone or something that just don’t add up. Or, they add up to some people, but not me. I just don’t get it. Take, for example,…