Vermont’s only congressman, Bernie Sanders, identifies himself in the House of Representatives as an Independent, but back here on the home turf, it’s well-known that he’s a socialist. He’s not the only one, but people don’t use the “s-word” in public, so everyone left of a Vermont Democrat just calls themselves “progressive.” You might say […]

Sometimes I think I must be the oldest person on earth. I’m speaking from northwest Vermont, about 40 miles from the Canadian border. For the last ten days or so, we’ve had hot, sunny weather. People walk up and down Church Street wearing shorts and sunburns. Down at the lake, 50 sailboats bob at their […]

One of the few college textbooks I still hold onto is a small volume by Darrell Huff called How to Lie With Statistics. It’s a humorous book that tells you how to make numbers say anything you want them to say. I was in Washington, DC last weekend, thinking about Mr. Huff and his book […]

I’d like to talk to you for a few minutes about – relationships. Wait! Wait! Please, don’t go switching over to Pacifica just yet. This isn’t going to be what you think it is, I swear. I recently read in a magazine that the Reverend John Papworth, of the Church of England, last year told […]