Category Archives: Civil Liberty

Where Does That Leave You?

9/16/2010 – 1:47 pm

We ignore the seasons in our post-industrial age, but they must hold some portent beyond what we see on WeatherUnderground.com. How else to explain the madness of late summer when world wars and terrorist attacks are launched, the lunacy of last year’s congressional town hall meetings or the contrived narrative arc that’s spooled out this […]

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But Should You?

9/9/2010 – 10:44 am

Nudity is legal is Burlington, Vermont, with a few (very few) qualifications. It is illegal to be naked in City Hall Park. (The reason for this is unclear, but said park is the summertime lounge spot for folks with white-people dreadlocks and dog-on-a-rope. I’m guessing that has something to do with it.) It is illegal […]

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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 recount. Look at […]

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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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“… 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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Phorced to be Phony

3/4/2010 – 10:41 am

“You don’t blow a bunch of cash in Vegas when you’re trying to save in college.’’ It’s not me saying that, it was Barack Obama, last month. Good advice, but as is often the case when you’re president, it landed him in hot water, so two weeks ago he went out of his way to […]

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