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We are so old that we remember when the news was more than a litany of catastrophic policy decisions and constant scandals. Can you blame us for feeling a twinge of nostalgia? On a recent, random, all-too-typical morning, in half an hour, on a now-defunded radio network, we learned that automotive fuel consumption standards were being lowered, a federal health panel had voted to give hepatitis B a second chance to kill babies, and former frontline allies are being deported to face almost certain death. Is this relentless series of destructive decisions just the inevitable result of handing the federal government over to a cadre of right wing paranoids, grifting billionaires, and amoral apparatchiks? Or are these mugs just working for Putin? Unfortunately, the circumstantial case for the latter hypothesis seems the stronger of the two. The mysterious Mr. Epstein, his connections with Robert Maxwell, Maxwell’s access to Promis software and the KGB, Trump’s financial shenanigans, the opportunities for blackmail… Will we ever get definitive… Warp Speed Entropy
SANDWICH, MASS., Dec. 14 – A bottle containing the following note was picked up on the beach to-day, three miles below Sandwich harbor: “Bark J.R. Humphrey, Bath, Me. We were out in the storm of November 25, and we wrote this to our friends, for when it is found we will be at the bottom of the wild ocean, hoping that you will pray for us and tell your friends.” Signed, John Wilson, captain, Pat Hoey, Tim Lewis, John O’Neil, Billy Cartell. On the reverse side was: “We are all lost.” [There is no such vessel as the “Bark J.R. Humphrey of Bath, Me.,” or elsewhere, on the treasury department list of merchant vessels. — Ed. Chronicle.] TORONTO, ONT., Dec. 14. – The newspapers here… Fake News in a Bottle
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2009—Sen. Joe Lieberman [I-Conn.] nixes a Medicare public option. 2003—U.S. troops drag Saddam Hussein out of a hole in the ground, so final victory in Iraq must be imminent. U.S…. 2006—The Portsmouth Herald misquotes Sen. Barack Obama [D-Ill.], who, the day before, in Portsmouth, did not say, “The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.” 2005—… 2006—President George W.[MD] Bush, on national TV, denies having ever been “a knee-walking drunk.” 2000—The Supreme Court hears arguments in the matter of Bush v. Gore. 1998—President Clinton begs forgiveness… 2004—Gary Webb, the CIA-Contra-drug reporter, gets two gunshots to the face. The coroner says, “suicide.” 1992—Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) admits he’s a groper but won’t resign. 1986—Boston-born film actress Susan… Sat, Dec 13
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by W.D. Ehrhart I recently had lunch with a man who’d grown up in my home town. I don’t know him well, but I’ve known him for 70 of my 77 years. He is a good and decent man, a husband, father, and grandfather fully… Who Would Jesus Vote For?
Dear Editor: There has recently been a great deal of discussion both nationally and locally regarding the duty of military personnel in following illegal orders. Things got more interesting when it was reported that on September 2nd, a boat carrying suspected narco terrorists in the… A Time-Honored Tradition
–=≈=– In which we ponder the conundrum of the moment: are these knuckleheads destroying the republic accidentally, or on purpose? Also, a number of pieces of serious journalism, published here under Creative Commons license, while that’s still legal. And, for connoisseurs of “the old, weird America,” selected items originally published by us in 1888. You can download a pdf of this issue by clicking on this link: https://www.nhgazette.com/pdf/270_07.pdf Volume 270, No. 7
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The New Hampshire Gazette’s resident starving artist. Over 20 years of political satire, some whimsical and some occasionally irreverent.
“Thanks again, as always, for making the now really bad news somewhat easier to tolerate. The truth, which is now seldom spoken, and never spoken by our nation’s “Liar in Chief,” just keeps getting worse and worse. I am thankful for our still (for now, anyway) free press and late night television comedians’ rants posted on Youtube about the state of our country.”
— E.S., Dover, N.H.
Portsmouth, arguably the first town in this country not founded by religious extremists, is bounded on the north and east by the Piscataqua River, the second, third, or fourth fastest-flowing navigable river in the country…read more.