Columnists
MIKE KEELER: May 1774: The Empire Strikes Back
On May 13, 1774, a large vessel sailed into Boston Harbor. It wasn't a whaler, it wasn't a trading ship of any kind. It was the HMS Lively, a...
FRED FIRST: To The End of The End of The Book
The uncertainty and never-ending unknowing may soon end. For the past year, there has been...
SCOT BELLAVIA: A Chance Rescue
Normally, I wouldn’t have been driving home. I went to church early to set up...
MELINDA MYERS: Gardening Helps Grow Healthy, Happy Kids
Gardeners know and research is proving that gardening, even viewing a garden, as well as...
Of Bears and Men and Meeting in the Woods . . . Revisited
I've thought much on this woman-meets-man-or-bear-alone-in-the-woods meme, and I tried to write on it yesterday....
DICK BAYNTON: Prevarication Politics
Prevarication is a word that means equivocation, fabrication, evasion of the truth, lying. Yes, it’s true in almost all political discourse and is often...
JOY SYLVESTER-JOHNSON: It’s Time To Grow Up
Lord Martin Rees, one of the world's most eminent astronomers, is an emeritus professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge and...
DICK BAYNTON: Freedom of Speech
When I read an op-ed of medium length recently in the WSJ, I objected to the title that was a suggestion for Republicans to...
MIKE KEELER: A Slow Starting Parade
The first blast was almost a bust.On September 5, 1882, a few hundred working-class folks gathered in the streets of lower Manhattan near city...
JOY SYLVESTER-JOHNSON: How Shall I Fight?
It has been said that power never surrenders without a fight.I know this to be true.For me the question remains, “How shall I fight?”How...
Dick Baynton: A Microcosm of Globalism
First, let’s start with definitions of ‘globalism’ and ‘globalization.’ In my humble opinion, ‘globalism’ is a dream of fantasy where all citizens of the...