NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” hasn’t cracked a Joe Biden joke since April 15, when cast member Michael Che quipped, “President Biden has tried to downplay the recent leak of classified U.S. documents that were posted on social media, because when you’re over 80, a couple of leaks are nothing to be embarrassed about.” With strikes […]

While I always enjoy Maine State Music Theatre’s spectacular productions, the highlights, for me, are often the big dance numbers, the times when ensemble members strut (or tap) their stuff with utter precision and unabashed joy. I imagine the years of hard work that each dancer spent leading up to that moment. I appreciate the […]

The last time that I wrote anything about the Proud Boys, I got into some hot water. There was a young man from the Bon Air Fire Department in Delaware County who had attended one or two Proud Boys meetings and decided that it wasn’t for him. However, the mere fact that he had dared […]

Almost a hundred years ago, the great American author Sinclair Lewis wrote a political novel called “It Can’t Happen Here.” The 1935 book was a warning that what was happening then in Europe — the rise of fascism and Nazism — could come to America in the form of a Hitler-type politician who gets elected […]