A couple weeks ago, I had the privilege of spending a few days out at the activist encampment in Standing Rock, North Dakota, the primary site of resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), the 1,172-mile-long “black snake” that, if completed, will bring crude oil from the Brakken oil fields all the way to Illinois. […]
In 2000, when Bill Clinton turned the Oval Office over to George W. Bush, he was effectively just passing it back to the same political cohort, and family, that he’d taken it from eight years prior. W’s cabinet even included Nixon’s Chief of Staff from 1970, Donald Rumsfield. As corrupt and violent as Bush was, […]
I actually want Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States. There. I said it. It’s not just that she isn’t Trump. The vast majority of media coverage over the last few months has focused overwhelmingly on how awful Trump is, and I’m not arguing. He’s a brute. But the truth is that a […]
If a hippie from Vermont and the scumbag host of The Apprentice can come this close to seizing the reins of power over our country, things really must be getting precarious. This is the time to act. We can’t just sit on the couch eating microwave popcorn, cringing at the presidential debates and shouting at […]
With election day fast approaching on Tuesday, it’s time to make your final decisions as to where you stand on Maine’s six big ballot questions. Here’s my take as concisely as possible. Question 1: Regulating Marijuana Like Alcohol NO As I laid out in this piece last week, I’ve got no problem with a couple […]
Whichever side of the current political divide you’re on, these days we all know deep in our guts that the other side isn’t just wrong. They’re evil. If they win, it’s just a matter of time before we all lose what’s left of our freedom. The future of our very civilization hangs in the balance. […]
If I were a young person who’d just earned a degree in teaching, and I was sitting there, drinking a cup of coffee with a friend, contemplating what I wanted to do next in my life, staying in Maine would probably feel like a pretty big sacrifice. For one thing, teachers in Maine make substantially […]
I’m tired of hearing folks talk about the workers serving high end food in Portland’s upscale restaurants as if they were the primary group of people that will be affected if Question Four passes on Election Day. They’re not. If Question Four passes, by 2020, Maine’s primary minimum wage will come to $12 an hour, […]
Yesterday, a man dressed as a tree, with evergreen branches tied tightly around his body, held up traffic on Congress Street, Portland’s busiest thoroughfare, until the cops showed up, escorted him onto the sidewalk and promptly arrested him. This guy’s a hero. Just watch the video: Police have arrested a man dressed as tree for […]
I believe really strongly that pot should be legal. It’s ridiculous to punish adults for doing something harmless in the privacy of their own homes. Marijuana’s much safer than alcohol and cigarettes. You can’t overdose. The worst thing that can happen is that you take one bong hit too many and end up glued […]
