We need a march of ministers, not a national military parade.  We need a parade of pure-souled priests and a rally of righteous rabbis.  Not a national military parade. Shock and awe have their place.  Our nation’s capital is not it.  We need a national cleansing, top to bottom, coast to coast.  We seek an […]

The flight from Boston to Los Angeles is about an hour longer than the flight back. There’s a pretty simple reason. The prevailing wind is from west to east. On the way to Boston, it can literally push the plane along. That wind can push almost anything along in that direction. For example, it can send eastward […]

Instead of the philosophy counter, we were at the righteous round table yesterday, because Herb got there first and he picked. It’s a good venue at the Mule Barn truck stop when you’re expecting more than three or four members of the world dilemma think tank. But we weren’t expecting Windy. Here he came, Alphonse […]

Is the traditional college doomed? More and more people think so. Massively open online courses are threatening to shake up higher education by bringing primarily non-credit courses from college professors to the world at no cost. The California state senate, however, has just passed a bill to encourage its universities to develop MOOCs and other […]

How many times have I heard said, “The rich need to pay their fair share?” But they already pay almost all of the federal income taxes while the “poor” receive government checks. A quick check with the Congressional Budget Office reveals that the top 20 percent of wage earners pay over 90 percent of all […]

Five decades ago my 11-year-old classmates and I were asked by our teacher to write “Compare and contrast” essays. I struggled with selecting a topic, and ultimately my halfhearted attempt to list the similarities and differences of an apple and a banana resulted in an uninspired paper that was as insipid as it was mediocre. […]

Now that the Second Regular Session of the 128th Legislature has adjourned and we have entered the Second Special Session, I would like to take this opportunity to say it has been a tremendous honor to continue to serve you in Augusta. During my time as a member of the Maine Senate, I have been […]