Monthly Archives: December 2000

Why Not 2K?

12/28/2000 – 12:34 pm

A year ago we were all worried about the new millennium. It wasn’t exciting enough to pass from one century and one millennium to the next. We needed the threat of calamity to goad our adrenaline glands into giving us a little bump. Fundamentalists looked for a second coming, or failing that, [...]

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More Light

12/21/2000 – 12:32 pm

Happy Solstice. The northern hemisphere reached its ultimate inclination away from the sun at 8:37 this morning, eastern standard time, making this the shortest day of the year. In northern Vermont, that means we enjoy about nine hours of daylight, and even that is obscured by clouds.
Commemorating the solstice is among the oldest [...]

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Suspicious Minds

12/14/2000 – 3:55 pm

I don’t have much to say this week. Along with the rest of the country, the post-presidential election skirmishing pummeled me into stunned silence. Anything I might say has been said already – two or three times, probably, first in an attorney’s brief, then on a C-SPAN roundtable and finally as a joke [...]

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The Undigested Life

12/7/2000 – 12:28 pm

The yuppies are starving, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Isn’t that a pleasant thought for the holiday season?
One of the newest trends to emerge from the desolate plains where science and culture meet is the calorie-restricted diet. If you thought your friends on the Zone diet were insufferable, wait ‘til [...]

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