The afternoons can still be sultry, but the evenings, nights and mornings are cool. Autumn is approaching, and while these days always bring a touch of bittersweet nostalgia, there’s an upside, too. The onset of cool weather means we in Vermont probably won’t have to deal with West Nile Virus this year; we’ll probably get […]

It’s nice to be right, but there are downsides. A few weeks ago, I was worrying out loud about the police departments in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, about how they would respond to activists exercising their First Amendment rights outside the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Although police in Philadelphia generally got high marks from […]

The Republican National Convention is now less than a week away and the Democrats will start up a few weeks from now. If you hurry, there’s still time to make other plans, so you don’t have to be caught home in front of the set. The Republicans are meeting in Philadelphia, a large city with […]

The New York Times says Ralph Nader has no business running for president. I’m guessing the stench of failure emanating from the Gore campaign must be getting in the nostrils of the gray lady of American journalism and is causing panic attacks. According to the Times’s editorial page, Ralph is a self-indulgent “spoiler” on a […]