Having been a low-grade pundit for a few election cycles, I’ve learned not to make pre-election predictions. Good thing, too, because I would not have predicted these outcomes. I haven’t learned to avoid post-election predictions, so I may yet come to grief. Some things we know for sure. The first is that Democrats cannot blame […]

What is in the mind of the Washington, DC shooter? What does he see when he looks though his gunsight? Apparently, he does not see a person. He sees a target. The shooter, I think, knows he’s going to be caught some day. He expects to be caught, even looks forward to it. On the […]

Every two years, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature publishes a “red list” of endangered species. This year’s list, just out, names 11,167 species, up 121 since 2000. One of the species featured on this year’s list is the saiga, an antelope native to central Asia. Ten years ago, there were over a […]

Two middle-aged men crossed my path last week, both of them talking about war. The first was Vice President Dick Cheney, who came to Burlington last Thursday to give a pep talk to Air National Guard pilots and ground crews. Once that short chore was finished and Mr. Cheney could technically charge his massive travel […]