Columnists
MIKE KEELER: May 1774: The Empire Strikes Back
On May 13, 1774, a large vessel sailed into Boston Harbor. It wasn't a whaler, it wasn't a trading ship of any kind. It was the HMS Lively, a...
FRED FIRST: To The End of The End of The Book
The uncertainty and never-ending unknowing may soon end. For the past year, there has been...
SCOT BELLAVIA: A Chance Rescue
Normally, I wouldn’t have been driving home. I went to church early to set up...
MELINDA MYERS: Gardening Helps Grow Healthy, Happy Kids
Gardeners know and research is proving that gardening, even viewing a garden, as well as...
Of Bears and Men and Meeting in the Woods . . . Revisited
I've thought much on this woman-meets-man-or-bear-alone-in-the-woods meme, and I tried to write on it yesterday....
DICK BAYNTON: The Problem of Power
Presidents, Governors, Prime Ministers and legislators accumulate power by (usually) winning elections to perform services for fellow citizens. Becoming one of the above-mentioned leaders...
JOHNNY ROBINSON: More Than Just Walking to School
Today there's a train blocking my path.I’ve been moving lightly on foot along the worn trail, two text books and two spiral notebooks tucked...
DICK BAYNTON: Innuendo and Actuality
The recent articles in the New York Times are teeming with rich and tempting innuendo. The rough definition of the word innuendo is ‘an...
LUCKY GARVIN: The Story of The Dying Man
Two weeks ago, he was working at a very high-tech job. Yes, he had metastatic cancer, but he once had hope; he was on...
MIKE KEELER: Beware The Super Blood Wolf Moon!
This is, like, really really horrible.First, it's about wolves. Cold, hungry, desperate, nasty wolves that prowl outside your home in the winter night. Wolves...
SAMUEL MOORE-SOBEL: A Play on Vice
George W. Bush apparently asked Dick Cheney to be his running mate while munching on a fried chicken leg.Or that is at least how...