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In Lieu of a Rant

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Friday, July 25, 6:40 p.m. — We recently performed what was supposed to be routine maintenance on some of the digital gears, belts, and pulleys which convert our newspaper—a real, physical thing, made of ink and paper—into the nebulous slurry of ones and zeroes that eventually result, presuming things are working properly, into something readable on whatever pane of glass may be in front of your face. You can guess the rest. We expect to be back, but we can’t say when for sure. Maybe tomorrow.

Fri, Apr 11

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2011—Pres. B. Obama mocks birther Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Uh-oh…. 2006—Veep Dick “Dick” Cheney’s first pitch at the Nationals’ home opener draws jeers and catcalls. 2002—Venezuelan generals replace elected President Hugo Chavez with CIA-approved Pedro Carmona. 1985—Reagan, it’s said, will lay a wreath at Bitburg, where American and German soldiers lie buried. Nope—that’s Waffen SS-only. 1968—Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 into law. 1966—Set out as bait at Xa Cam My by the CO of the Big Red One, Charlie Co., 2/16th Inf., 134 strong, is ambushed. Relief plans go awry, friendly fire happens; 36 KIA, 71 …

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May the Gods Preserve Us

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To the Editor, If you’re looking for the Antichrist look no further than His Excellency: the antithesis of Jesus, who preached love, compassion, acceptance, truthfulness, fidelity, and humility among other beatitudes; the epitome of Lucifer, a faithless, deceitful, hate filled narcissist devoted to demeaning, misleading, and corrupting. So shame on all who identify as Christians who voted Lucifer over their professed Savior; were Speaker Johnson to read, and understand, the forgoing, it might occur to him that should the Rapture to which he seems to so look forward materialize he will likely find himself among those the Celestial Finger flicks into the fire. Shame, too, …

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Sun, Aug 11

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2017—A “good person” rallying for White Supremacy in Charlottesville, Va. commits vehicular homicide. 2009—President Obama speaks inside Portsmouth, N.H. High School. Outside a Libertarian packs a 9-mm pistol and totes a sign calling for the “blood of patriots and tyrants.” 1980—Ex-Gov. John Connally lands in Houston after weeks in the Middle East, lobbying Iran, via foreign leaders, not to release its U.S. hostages. 1972—Delta Co., 3/21st Infantry, conduct the last U.S. combat patrol in Vietnam; booby traps wound two. 1966—The first Coast Guardsmen (2) are killed in Vietnam when B-57s and F-4s attack the cutter Point Welcome. 1965—A white L.A. cop pulls over a Black …

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“Let Them Eat GDP Reports”:
44 Million Americans Are Food Insecure

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by Jessica Corbett A U.S. anti-hunger group marked April Fools’ Day on Monday with a snarky statement suggesting that hungry Americans “can eat positive economic statistics about the soaring stock market or the growing gross domestic product.” “Let them eat GDP reports,” Hunger Free America declared of the 44 million Americans—including 13 million children—who live in food insecure households, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. GDP is the market value of all the finished goods and services produced in a country over a certain time period. Critics have long argued against using it as the premier indicator of how a nation is doing. “The …

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Remembering Governor Voldemort

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To the Editor: A 6th housing forum was held at St Anselm’s on December 8, 2023. The Free State Project is supposed to stand for freedom. So why would they want to impose draconian zoning changes on our towns? Jason Sorens is the founder of the Free State Project and part of the “Center for Ethics in Society” at St. Anselms’s. In partnership with New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority and the N.H. Office of Planning and Development, this group was the creator of the “Zoning Atlas,” a tool that helps target towns that do not favor high density construction. Why would a supposedly Catholic college …

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