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Big Day Tomorrow

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Friday, January 21, 2011 — We just received and approved a Comment in response to this post, which we liked well enough to convert into this post: Meanwhile, check out this Comment is Free article in The Guardian. The title is “New Hampshire’s place in geopolitics.” An excerpt: ‘”All politics is local” is a common phrase in America. It is astonishing just how true that is when surveying the current landscape of the 2012 race for the White House. Forget “blood libels” and healthcare repeal votes and the new head of the RNC. Instead, pay very close attention to an obscure vote taking place in …

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Citizen Groups To Get NRC Hearing Tuesday

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Wednesday, December 1, 2010 — UPDATE: We would like to encourage readers to check out the Comments for this post. — The Ed. Monday, November 29, 2010 — This just in from Doug Bogen, of the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League: Portsmouth – Citizen groups will get an opportunity to make their case for intervention in the early relicensing of the Seabrook nuclear power plant to operate until 2050. The hearing will take place at 9 AM to 1 PM on Tuesday, November 30th at the Levenson Room of Portsmouth Public Library. The groups – Beyond Nuclear (Takoma Park, MD), Seacoast Anti-Pollution League (Exeter, NH) and the …

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British Journalist Disses President Franklin Pierce

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010 — Taking on a news organization as highly respected as the BBC is a fool’s errand, but duty calls. Today the Beeb’s Washington correspondent David Nasaw, in the course of explaining why the U.S. Mint continues banging out $1 coins which no one wants to use, had the temerity to assert that they bear the likenesses of “presidents no-one even remembers anymore, like Franklin Pierce … .” Please, Mr. Nasaw — this is not only disrespectful, it is demonstrably false! Just ask the members of The Pierce Brigade! UPDATE — Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Huzzah! Reinforcements have arrived! Click “Comments.”

The Monday Morning Show

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Monday, August 9, 2010 — We learned just the other day that Shortstream.tv‘s The Monday Morning Show features Emily Briand reading excerpts from Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua Rier Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes). We are, of course, tickled. Here’s the latest iteration:

Why We Lost in Vietnam: The Monkey Gap

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Monday, July 12, 2010 — Thanks to the Chinese government, we finally know why America lost in Vietnam. It was the Monkey Gap. The Internet is abuzz this morning with a story emanating from the People’s Daily Online, headlined “Monkeys trained as battlefield killers in Afghanistan.” The story goes on to say that a “British-based media agency,” had photographed “monkey soldiers” trained by the Taliban and armed with AK-47s and Bren guns in Waziristan. Most of the reporting on this story concerns the implications for the future in Afghanistan. Backward-looking organization that we are, we’re more interested in its historical implications. “Ironically,” People’s Daily reports, …

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