Monthly Archives: December 2001

Two Down, Ten to Go

12/27/2001 – 1:48 pm

Today is the third day of Christmas; your true love should be giving you three French hens, two turtledoves and a partridge in a pear tree, but probably will not. Traditionally, the Christmas season lasts 12 days, from Christmas Day until January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany, when the magi were supposed to [...]

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Let It Snow, Let It Snow

12/20/2001 – 1:47 pm

We have an affinity for snowflakes in Vermont. About this time every year we import a googol or two from Canada. We’ll be enchanted by our snowflakes for the next three months, but the flakes will outlast our enchantment, sticking around until April.
It was a Vermonter, Wilson Bentley, from over in Jericho, who [...]

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A Nice, Clean Fight

12/13/2001 – 1:45 pm

“War – what is it good for?” the old song asks. “Absolutely nothing,” comes the reply. That song was not written by a defense contractor, because war is the best live-action research and development program a weapons maker could ask for. The current conflict in Afghanistan has been a boon for the [...]

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Stop Beating Your Wife

12/6/2001 – 1:43 pm

Last Saturday, December first, my probation ended and I was returned to full-fledged citizenship. I was arrested in late August with some folks from Greenpeace for occupying a coal-burning, carbon dioxide-spewing power plant in Salem, Massachusetts. We were trying to make a point about global warming.
The local judge all but thanked us for [...]

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