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Look at Vermont

9/2/2010 – 11:15 am

Look at Alaska. Senator Lisa Murkowski conceded the Republican primary Tuesday to tea party/Palin candidate Joe Miller. In conceding, Ms. Murkowski criticized what she called distorted and personal attacks against her by Mr. Miller in the campaign. For his part, Mr. Miller accused Mr. Murkowski’s campaign staff of illegally interfering with the [...]

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Purple’s a Fruit.

9/1/2010 – 3:26 pm

The grapes really came in this year. They’re ripe now; reminding me that nature has its own schedule, regardless of what I else I think I have to do.
So I was out early this morning, cutting clusters, hoping to get some juice pressed before the day’s (previously scheduled) activities began. The sun was [...]

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Nice to be Important, Important to be Nice

8/26/2010 – 12:07 pm

Not that you’d know it by the national media, but we had a primary election in Vermont Tuesday. Pretty exciting, but lacking in tea parties, billionaires trying to buy their way into office, wrestling executives and so forth.
What we had was a five-way contest for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Our four-term (two-year terms) [...]

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How Hard is This?

8/19/2010 – 1:07 pm

Polish President Lech Kacszynski and 95 others were killed in a plane crash in Russia last April. A few days later, Polish boy and girl scouts erected a four-meter wooden cross in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw.
It’s been four months, a new president is in office and life is returning to normal. [...]

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Drinking Dry the Sea

8/12/2010 – 11:40 am

Consider the environmental woes that confront us. Consider drinking dry the sea. They feel about the same.
Global warming, overfishing, deforestation, uncontrolled release of genetically modified material, nuclear waste.
So cut it down, make it manageable. Choose a single issue – say the release of toxic chemicals into our air, soil, water and our [...]

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“… Is to Stop Discriminating…”

8/5/2010 – 12:12 pm

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority in Parents Involved in Community School Districts v. Seattle School District No. 1, (2007) wrote, “(t)he way to stop discriminating on basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
Sounds good, doesn’t it? Who says the Supremes are immune to sound [...]

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Vacation, Then and Now

7/29/2010 – 9:26 am

JOE’S POND, VT – We’re on vacation this week at Joe’s Pond (formerly “Injun Joe’s Pond”) in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Swimming, canoeing, reading on the dock, getting sunburned, walking down to the little store for an ice cream after dinner, hearing the loons call at night.
It’s the kind of vacation I had as a [...]

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