There's an old story about a dog-food manufacturer who created a new canine concoction with the best ingredients and infused with the finest nutrients. It was launched into the market with great fanfare. There was only one problem. The dogs didn't like it.
It was a politically boisterous week in northern New England. Head of the N.H. Libertarian party Jeremy Kaufman, excommunicated from the Free Staters in 2023 for being even too racist, antisemitic and homophobic for them, scored again. He got his NH Libertarian Party ousted from the national…
Kennett High School's steamy indoor graduation of 2009 included a young lady whose education her mother and I had monitored closely. We homeschooled her through the seventh and eighth grades, when Kennett Junior High seemed dysfunctional. She was a diligent student, maintaining a stellar gra…
There is only one day left in the New Hampshire legislative calendar, which will be next Thursday, June 5.
Reports about a U.S.-Iran peace deal have been served up in recent days as a tasting menu. Instead, it increasingly seems like a palate cleanser.
Tourism thrives on misery. The concept of profiting from pleasure-seeking travelers only emerged a couple of centuries ago, just as the Industrial Revolution began seducing Western populations from bucolic agricultural communities to crowded, dirty cities and monotonous labor. OSHA may have …
Without newspapers our cities and towns could keep unpleasant facts from the public. Transparency only happens when reporters start asking questions about the conduct of public officials.
Yes, as many of us have wondered, there actually may be something in the water on the American campaign trail or in the White House.
There's a new-ish "movement" that has entered our cultural vernacular and has been cultivating in the petri dish of our climate of political extremism. "Masculinism" is a socio-political ideology centered on men's issues, but it goes much deeper. Masculinism is not to be confused with mascul…
World Heritage Inc.
Having harked the call of Henry Thoreau at an early age, I've always valued simplicity, and the unrelenting advance of technology has only stiffened my resolve in that quarter. Fancy new gadgets only multiply the potential for malfunction, and minimize the chances of repair (especially by th…
Confessions of a Repentant Evangelical
TELE-TALK: Do you think voters deserve an explanation when two longtime selectmen suddenly quit?
PARSONS, West Virginia — Under a canopy of red and sugar maple, yellow poplar and sweet birch trees sits a colorful vernal riot of wildflowers like Canada violet, phlox and Solomon's seal -- and a case study of a modern collision of two of the hardiest ideological perennials on the political…
Call out: It’s not hard to imagine a future where gadgets produce and we consume.
The fine readership, having a unique window into my peculiar psychology, may have noticed that I’ve really been working on my anger management. I’m as cool as a cucumber in a zen den.