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From BBC news online here’s a report on yesterday’s sentencing of Khmer Rouge prison overseer Kaing Guek Eav or “Comrade Duch” to 35 years in jail. He may, however, only be required to serve 19 years. The public response in Cambodia was mixed, with some people saying they had expected…
Read More »According to a story at SouthCoastToday.com – the Governors of Massachusetts and Rhode Island have signed a memorandum of understanding about any development of off-shore wind farms. The Governors see this as a move to protect the interests of both states and to position them to best take advantage of every economic and environmental…
Read More »Uncle Dave is stirring it up again over there at the NYT. Today he’s channeling his young liberal self in a green army jacket who got practical along the way older and turned “kinda conservative.” What’s really going on is that he admires President Obama. He wants to see him…
Read More »It has become common since the beginning of the Tea Party movement to hear Thomas Jefferson’s “Tree of Liberty” letter quoted. Specifically, the sentences about the need for shedding the blood of patriots and tyrants and about the need for a rebellion every twenty years or so. I had always…
Read More »Is anyone surprised by today’s version of the “Pentagon Papers” released in New York, Berlin, and London? I once worked for a guy who had as one of his management aphorisms: “Be careful not to manage a mistake.” When Bush and Cheney took their eyes off the ball in 2003 and shifted…
Read More »It’s been a while since I dragged Frank Rich over from the NYTimes to rh.com, but his column published yesterday is one that has to be spread around. Rich keeps calling what’s going on out there in politics for what it really is—in my book. He stubbornly keeps connecting the…
Read More »According to a report from the Boston Globe MetroDesk on-line, a unanimous ruling from the Supreme Judicial Court written by Justice Ralph Gants changes rules that have guided Massachusetts “slip and fall” lawsuit cases for the last 125 years. In a unanimous ruling written by Justice Ralph Gants, the Supreme Judicial…
Read More »Now available at Barnes and Noble Downtown, Welles Emporium, Guy Lefebvre’s Lowell Gallery, Brew’d Awakening, National Park Visitor Center Gift Shop, Monkey’s Ice Cream & Gifts, Dharma Buns, and online at www.loompress.com and www.amazon.com At many of these same fine businesses, readers will find Loom Press book titles, including those by Steve…
Read More »Paul Krugman in his NYT column today tells why we are not getting serious energy policy legislation out of Washington, D.C. Krugman lines up with Andrew H., if you’ve been reading this blog regularly. Read his essay here. Krugman’s colleague Ross Douthat takes a different view on the consequences in his…
Read More »Kudos to the City of Lowell, Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitor Bureau, Lowell Festival Foundation, Lowell National Historical Park, and National Council for Traditional Arts for once again being the prime movers behind an inspiring and joyful Lowell Folk Festival. The Sunday crowd was much smaller than yesterday’s, but it…
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