Lessons for USA? Reason magazine is continuing to pump out top rate articles, perhaps because the new Administration in Washington has provided them a fountainhead of rich material. In any case...

By Prominent First Amendment Advocate Angela Davis caused a UMass free speech controversy in the 70's. Nationally respected free speech advocate Harvey Silvergate weighed in on the recent free speech controversy at UMass over the cancelled...

Writing Tips. I can't believe I never saw this before! It's a list that Jack Kerouac once wrote of the "essentials" of writing which he called Belief and Technique for Modern Prose. Here's the list with my comments after each one based on my own...

Or the Last of the Narragansetts? I have to laugh over the details of the arrest last weekend of Springfield poltitical villain Frankie Keough. He got busted for breaking into his former second home in Rhode Island (odd how so many "public servants"...

Old Reviews Okay people, just one more day of nostalgia as we look at these old reviews I wrote. I finally understand this pirate craze thanks to seeing the Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean a few weeks ago. I saw it in an interesting setting...

More Oldies Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth (or at least the concert stages) I was a misbehaving teenager attending acid rock shows in the Springfield area armed with a beautiful topshelf Yashica camera I got for a pittance from a B&E artist I...