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It will take more than an election to repair the damage

Guns, guns, guns! For all, everywhere! Including felons! In parks! And let's hear it for the Magna Carta! And Bible study! Ax the tax, any tax! And have I mentioned guns? At times, listening to our esteemed legislators, we can only laugh and hope that, as some longtime State House observers opine, many of them are unlikely to survive the November election. One particularly hopes… 8

February 5, 2012

Clueless about the 99%

Money, money, money Must be funny In the rich man's world Money, money, money Always sunny In the rich man's world ABBA's wonderful ditty may well be the theme song of the 2012 presidential election. The Great Recession and its attendant woes have focused sharp attention on the yawning gulf between those at the top of the American economic ladder and those below. As… 19

January 22, 2012

Commentary

The clown car cometh . . . then leaveth

Last week the itinerant GOP Presidential Road Show officially brought its clanking Clown Car - er, Candidate Caravan - to the Granite State. We knew it was coming, of course, backfiring repeatedly as it chugged here from Iowa. And in a few days we'll send it wobbling along to South Carolina and thence to the rest of the nation. Lots of luck, nation. The good and sober citizens… 17

January 7, 2012

Be it resolved: In 2012 I will learn to nap!

I once had ambitious New Year's resolutions. Win a Pulitzer. Cure cancer. Bring peace to all mankind. Then they got more (potentially) achievable. Lose 10 pounds. Clean out the refrigerator once a month. Stop yelling at the 6:30 news. This year I've set the lowest bar yet. I will learn how to nap. Really! And if I am successful I'll take up the napping banner and carry it wherever… 0

January 1, 2012

Gearing up for 2012

Promotional political paraphernalia have been with us for much of our nation's history. I wouldn't be surprised to find out George Washington gave potential voters complimentary pints of liquor, with his name emblazoned on the label, from his thriving distillery. The advent of cheap color printing and other… 2

December 24, 2011

Attention last-minute shoppers! You're in luck

Okay, it's a week before the big day, and you're in great shape. The tree is up and decorated. Tins of brightly decorated cookies line a pantry shelf. Poinsettias glow from every nook and cranny, and the fireplace mantle overflows with Aunt Myrtle's snow globe collection. Outdoor lights and decorations? Check. All in place, although it would be great if that inflatable… 0

December 18, 2011

Oh! Christmas tree!

Last week ago Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee - elected as an independent and known as a political maverick - performed a fairly routine gubernatorial duty. He invited Rhode Islanders to a tree lighting ceremony at the state house. He called the large spruce in the spacious rotunda a "holiday tree." As,… 17

December 11, 2011

Just when it couldn't get any better . . . Newt!

Just when we thought the GOP presidential nomination free-for-all couldn't get any better, it did. Newt Gingrich, left for dead just months ago, has roared into first place in national polls. And Mitt Romney - perfectly groomed and coiffed, meticulously programmed and rehearsed and yet unceremoniously kicked to the curb by the powerful New Hampshire Union Leader - must have… 8

December 4, 2011

Back to the 18th century!

Y'know how some of us joke that the New Hampshire Legislature - particularly members of the House of Representatives - are hell-bent on dragging the state back to the 18th century? Turns out it's not a joke. A bunch of our representatives really do want to take us all back to the carefree, constitutionally correct days of the 1780s. They are members of a committee set up… 10

November 20, 2011

We are silent no longer!

I truly do love NPR. The earnest souls who populate its airwaves impart an endlessly interesting stream of information I'm not going to find in even my beloved morning Monitor. In just the last year, I learned that a Harvard professor and his lab students invented an inhalable chocolate and dubbed it Le Whif. That there's a growing national shortage of large animal vets because… 7

November 13, 2011