Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
BRATTLEBORO-At a standing-room-only meeting at Academy School on Dec. 12, Representative Town Meeting (RTM) members voted 76–55 to rescind the town's recently adopted Acceptable Community Conduct Ordinance. Cristina Shay-Onye, District 8, made the motion to disapprove the ordinance, arguing that if enacted the ordinance would violate Constitutional rights and expose the town to expensive lawsuits. She urged town representatives to vote to disapprove the ordinance. Referencing the ordinance's "Behavioral No Trespass Zones," which include Brooks Memorial Library and the Brattleboro...
Those familiar with humor website Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency (www.mcsweeneys.net/tendency) might recognize the familiar “list” theme of Rebecca Coffey's new book, Nietzsche's Angel Food Cake … and Other “Recipes” For the Intellectually Famished. “Dorothy's Parker House Rolls: A Jazz Age Recipe” builds up to ask, “What is worse than a Pahkah House Roll?" “Sigmund Freud's 10 Steps to Great Fish” pairs the Oedipus complex with a preparation of trout. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Creature features in re-animated meatloaf. And the titular...
Erica Jong, author of Fear of Flying, wrote about more than her own fear of flying in her bestselling novel, but she did manage to capture my own feelings whenever I board a hunk of a silver vessel about to hurtle across the sky. “My fingers (and toes) turn to ice,” she wrote, “my stomach leaps upward into my rib cage, the temperature in the tip of my nose drops to the same temperature in my fingers, [...] and for...
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