Lessons for USA? Reason magazine is continuing to pump out top rate articles, perhaps because the new Administration in Washington has provided them a fountainhead of rich material. In any case...

Now Scott Brown Must Defeat Her Wicked Witch Coakley and Scott Brown I'm sorry to report that political hack Martha Coakley has won the senatorial primaries to select two candidates to compete for the seat once held by Ted Kennedy. One might have...

Unflattering Portrait I'm currently reading Amherst writer Augusten Burrough's hatchet job memoir of his late father, UMass philosophy professor John Robison, A Wolf at the Table. In it Augusten describes how he got his first apartment on Appleton...

Taxing the Holidays Did you know that over 40% of the cost of your Thanksgiving dinner was imposed on you by the government? Americans for Tax Reform did the math which shows that an unwelcome guest was at your Thanksgiving feast - the tax...

No Good Candidates If the voters can stop yawning long enough, they will go to the polls on Tuesday to select two people to run for the U.S. Senate seat left open by the death last summer of Edward M. Kennedy. I don't know why anyone should give a...

Off the Beaten Path Yesterday my sister and I headed out on the streets of her adopted town of Westfield to see what we could see. This is ol' Saint Mary's. I was sorry to see that this art store has gone out business. They always had cool paintings...