Remember back during the 2000 presidential campaign, when George W. Bush described himself as a “compassionate conservative” to differentiate himself from the majority of conservatives who are not by nature kind, caring and compassionate? Well, that breed of conservative is rapidly becoming extinct, replaced by the reincarnate dinosaurs of the right. We now have a […]

Apparently, you are an idiot. I’d previously suspected this of Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling, Gov. Paul LePage and everyone in authority at the state Department of Health and Human Services. But I had no idea the plague of stupidity included you (and me) until I read a new report from the Maine Heritage Policy Center […]

As we head into another fall sports season, there’s an effort underway to throw football out the window because of brain-related diseases later in some athletes’ lives. The sport so loved and revered by generations of Americans might be nearing its own traumatic end – at least for high school and other youth football leagues. […]

I recently paid $60 worth of parking tickets to the great city of Portland. I returned to my car a few hours later to see a fresh one fluttering in the breeze. The city’s version of a middle finger. It is impossible to have a clean slate. The city’s new parking app apparently has a […]