Do you ever feel lonely? If so, welcome to the club. Most people are lonely from time to time. For many people, it is a chronic condition that affects not just their mental state but also their physical condition. Some experts have reported that loneliness can be as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes a day […]

Democracy is breaking out all across the country. Not representative democracy, the hallmark of the Republic, but the original version – direct democracy. That’s when people themselves decide, legislating in place of their elected representatives. In Maine and other New England states, many local governments use the Town Meeting, the people’s legislature. That kind of […]

THE PRESIDENT’S DOGS THAT BITE PEOPLE by Tom Purcell, October 3, 2023 President Biden is being dogged by a unique White House problem. About a week ago, Biden’s German Shepherd, Commander, bit a secret service officer — Commander’s 11th secret-service-officer biting since he moved to the White House in December of 2021. Commander must have […]

Donald Trump has been indicted in four different jurisdictions on a whopping total of 91 felony charges. The only president, present or former, to have faced any such charges, he’s nonetheless tightened his grip on the Republican Party. Meanwhile, Joe Biden, who defeated Trump in 2020 by 7 million popular votes and 306-232 in electoral […]

THE CONVERSATION — Over the last decade, smartphones have become ubiquitous not just for sending texts and staying abreast of news, but also for monitoring daily activity levels. Among the most common, and arguably the most meaningful, tracking method for daily physical activity is step counting. Counting steps is far more than a fad: The […]

These Republican presidential squabble-debates are so worthless, so utterly devoid of value, that they make three-dollar bills look like Bob Menendez’s gold bars. How is it possible for these B-team blowhards to yammer on for two interminable hours without once mentioning that the cult’s AWOL authoritarian, Donald Trump, recently pined for the execution of the […]

From the first dumb question to the abrupt ending that caught everyone by surprise, the GOP presidential primary debate produced by the Fox Business channel was a total disaster. I know. I was there Wednesday night – in Row 5 of the Air Force One pavilion in the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. […]

THE CONVERSATION — Unless Congress and the White House can agree on a budget or extend funding short term, the federal government will shut down on Oct. 1, 2023. This means that approximately 2.2 million civilian federal employees would be furloughed and face delayed paychecks and lost work hours — in addition to 3.7 million federal contractors who would also be forced […]

This happened to a friend of mine many years ago, so I’ll change the names to protect the not-so-innocent. Muriel had fallen passionately in love with her college classmate Norbert, and they spent many long, happy hours discussing their future together and all the joy they’d find, and yes, those five kids they’d spawn. Muriel […]

A U.S. Open Tennis Tournament match was suspended so a climate protester, who had glued his bare feet to the ground, could be removed. Though his means of expression was extreme, his protest was valid. The U.N. group tracking progress in halting global warming issued its report almost the same day. The world is not […]