A year ago we were all worried about the new millennium. It wasn’t exciting enough to pass from one century and one millennium to the next. We needed the threat of calamity to goad our adrenaline glands into giving us a little bump. Fundamentalists looked for a second coming, or failing that, at least an […]

I don’t have much to say this week. Along with the rest of the country, the post-presidential election skirmishing pummeled me into stunned silence. Anything I might say has been said already – two or three times, probably, first in an attorney’s brief, then on a C-SPAN roundtable and finally as a joke from Letterman […]

Did you get your deer yet? It’s a common question around Vermont these days. Trees are bare, snow is common, if not ubiquitous; driving on rural roads, one often sees men dressed in camouflage and blaze orange out walking, rifles slung from their shoulders. It’s easy to imagine a small insurrection is under way. There […]

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first drive to madness. If we’re not there yet, we must be getting pretty close. Weeks ago, almost all the respondents in my informal poll, more than anything else, just wanted this election to be over. The optimist sitting on my shoulder says when Florida absentee ballots are […]