Former governor Paul LePage’s “abortion only affects a few and I’m busy with other matters” position strikes right to the heart of the peripheral. I’m agnostic about abortion, but I’m not about my privacy. This issue, and its obvious consequences, represent the greatest threat to my personal freedom to date. I’m a 75-year-old man. Whatever […]

As Colin Woodard’s recent reporting observed, the Supreme Court ruling rendering the Environmental Protection Agency unable to enforce industrial carbon dioxide emissions regulations is “a blow to U.S. efforts to reduce climate catastrophe.” Woodard went on to outline the good news – that Maine’s climate-related plans will continue unabated. But what about other states that […]

I had a tough time maneuvering my little Honda Fit into the parking lot at a Starbucks along Route 1 in Scarborough the other day, and it had nothing to do with the size of the parking spaces. I was barely able to squeeze in because the driveway was blocked by a string of about […]

Tongue in cheek, there’s a simple Newtonian solution to the problem of global warming: frequent, perhaps daily launchings of rockets into space. If each one is timed to take off from its launch site at noon, toward the sun, the act of mutual separation would push the earth away from the sun, cooling our planet. […]

They were told they couldn’t vote. They were told they couldn’t work outside the home. They were told they couldn’t go to law school, be lawyers, couldn’t go to medical school to be doctors, couldn’t hold public office, mayors, governors, vice president of the United States. Couldn’t be policemen or firefighters or welders or construction […]

The Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v Wade on June 24m 2022. The purpose of this letter is not to discuss whether the right to choose should be maintained or not, I expect you have made up your mind on that already. I want to remind people that the government works for […]

On this Fourth of July, I reflected on what that means to be an American. I am an American who believes it is our right and responsibility to vote in every election. I do not believe that a 95-year-old military veteran should have to find his original documentation, from when he registered to vote 75 […]

Given the relentless – and unfunny – Dilbert attack on voting machine security, is it not time to move the comic strip to the op-ed page? Our voting machines have been proven secure many times. Suggesting otherwise is not funny and simply encourages the conspiracy theorists. Let’s get Scott Adams where he wants to be: […]