At a bit after noon today, I heard some kind of big drum beat outside, and remembered--today was the day of the Honk! festival in which a bunch of radical leftist marching bands march down Massachusetts Avenue. They go from Somerville to Cambridge's...

A member of our CSA, on our farm's Facebook page, laying out a week's small share on the counter, and sharing the photo with the world. Today was the last day of the year to pick up produce from our farmer. Our farmer is an old punk rocker, now a...

For all the fuss about Joe Wilson disrespecting Obama by shouting "You lie!" (to which, it can only be said, he never would have said that to a white president)-- the biggest crime is not disrespecting the president, but that he was doing so in the...