One can imagine the consternation felt by representatives of Funtown Splashtown USA last week. The popular Saco amusement park was denounced for an alleged incident involving the bullying of an autistic patron by a park employee. Funtown’s dismay was understandable. The incident never occurred. The barrage of negative comments came after reports surfaced of a […]

Not everyone knows how to act. You know it. I know it. Emily Post knew it, which is why, beginning in the 1920s, she wrote a series of books dedicated almost solely to the art of etiquette. It was an era in which men occasionally blew their noses into their hands and spit tobacco onto […]

The Eagle-Tribune (Mass.), July 16: Such is the skill of the scientists and engineers who work for NASA that, after a journey of more than nine years and 3 billion miles, the New Horizons probe arrived July 14 at its close encounter with Pluto 72 seconds ahead of schedule. Surely, the people who made this […]

Thumbs up to the Sanford Mainers and their All-Star Game Committee for putting on quite a show at Goodall Park even with Mother Nature wiping out the actual game. The best players in the New England Collegiate Baseball League ”“ along with all of the fans ”“ were treated to a great day of baseball, […]

Valley News (N.H.), July 16: Jeb Bush’s clarion call last week for Americans to work longer hours was issued at a particularly inopportune moment: In July, millions of Bush’s fellow citizens are on vacation, resting from their labors and savoring for a welcome change the pleasures of not working. We suspect, though, that that’s only […]

Right now, it’s beginning to look as if President Obama will end up deserving the Nobel Peace Prize he was so prematurely awarded in 2009. Perhaps you recall how, during the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, Obama’s opponents treated his expressed willingness to speak with the leaders of unfriendly countries such as Cuba and Iran as […]