Some time next month, workers will place a piece of track along the once-abandoned Mountain Division rail line in South Windham, completing a section that begins in Portland. They will then walk away from the project. When they’ll return is anyone’s guess. The revitalization of the rail route, which supporters hope will some day stretch […]

To continuously repeat a futile action is a definition of insanity. A good example of such insanity is the so-called War on Drugs. At the coffee shop this week, a saddened Lucius Flatley apologized to the coffee drinkers for “beating a dead horse.” He said he realized the drug war “is an old topic, so […]

Cleaning out the files of various random snippets of information collected during the past few months: Stop and frisk: The U.S. Border Patrol can legally perform warrantless searches for 100 miles within U.S. borders (including maritime). Two-thirds of Americans live within that area. Why Sarah left: The confirmed cases of gonorrhea in Alaska have risen […]

Cleaning out the files of various random snippets of information collected during the past few months: Stop and frisk: The U.S. Border Patrol can legally perform warrantless searches for 100 miles within U.S. borders (including maritime). Two-thirds of Americans live within that area. Why Sarah left: The confirmed cases of gonorrhea in Alaska have risen […]

This week, Lucius Flatley called a weekend meeting of the coffee shop regulars to discuss the U.S. infrastructure and its affect on the future of the country. They talked mostly about transportation – roads, bridges, rail, air – since this was something on which they could agree as a national need and a national benefit. […]

This week, Lucius Flatley called a weekend meeting of the coffee shop regulars to discuss the U.S. infrastructure and its affect on the future of the country. They talked mostly about transportation – roads, bridges, rail, air – since this was something on which they could agree as a national need and a national benefit. […]

The other day I was at an office I go to occasionally, attending to a few very important things, when the new office copier started making a high-pitched unidentifiable noise that made my ear drums ring as if I’d been using a dentist’s drill for a Q-Tip. I turned to one of the secretaries and […]

I know I’m not the first person to say something like this, but regardless: “Things were simpler when I was a kid in the 1950s and ’60s.” There, I’ve said it again, anyway. A reminder of how simple things were occurred to me the other day as I sat in the car waiting for my […]