It’s ironic that the Haines Borough is carrying a million-dollar deficit because it just so happens that the Jackass in the White House owes our town at least half that much up front. We should have our tourism department send him a bill. Back in February, the Jackass started flapping his jaws about “making Canada the 51st state.” Ostensibly, this…
The Jackass in the White House continues to break the law, destroy democratic norms, erode the nation’s proudest institutions and traditions and violate all semblance of civic decency because we – the citizens — allow him to. When he’s not skewering the First Amendment to silence critics, shredding habeus corpus by throwing nonwhite citizens in jail without cause, or blatantly…
Little league baseball doesn’t cast a long shadow over this town. Summer is too short and the game requires landscaping, an art yet to arrive in the North. A regulation pitcher’s mound and a grass infield are luxuries our tiny ballplayers only dream about. They play on gravel, a Field of Screams where a hot grounder reaches critical velocity on…
After pedaling a bicycle from Netherlands to Germany to Denmark to Sweden to France to Belgium and back to Holland again without ever having to stop at a customs station, it struck me as absurd on my return through Canada that I’d have to stop at U.S. Customs. The U.S. and Canada are both former colonies of Britain. We are…
“The idea that what you can’t name has power over you is a common theme with roots in various beliefs and folklore. The core concept is that naming something allows for understanding, control, and even ownership over it.” AI Suicide has vexed society and the medical community since forever. But a 37 percent increase in suicide rates between 2000 and 2018 –…
“At around noon on 14 April, 2025, America ceased to have a law-abiding government.” — Edward Luce, Financial Times (London), April 16, 2025 Mom was working on a jigsaw puzzle of the U.S. Capitol and turned to me: “Tom, do you know what makes our country great?” I was about 10 years old and under the education of nuns, so…
Many bright, well-meaning people are trying to figure out Donald Trump’s plan. They’re debating the efficacy of tariffs and deportations and saber-rattling and giant cuts to funding and agencies, such as the National Weather Service. They’re wondering if the tariff statements were just an elaborate stock-market scheme. They’re looking into Trump’s philosophy and method and the logic of it all,…
It seems the rich have us by the short hairs. They control our federal government, which they are dismantling. They control the few corporations that own our economy and have jacked prices so high that they are the only ones not feeling the pinch. If we don’t act soon, most of us will eventually become serfs in their medieval, dystopian…
A question largely overlooked in the coverage of Donald Trump is why does he dishonor himself? Why does he mock the disabled? Why does he insult our nation’s war heroes? Why, one week before the election, did he use a microphone to pantomime fellatio? Where does dishonorable behavior get him? What does it achieve? Why does he continue with it?…
“Those gooks were fierce and fearless. That’s the price you pay when you invade.” Rocker Lou Reed, from “Christmas in February” Vladimir Putin won’t own Ukraine. Neither will Donald Trump. The Ukrainians will own their own country for as long as they want to, regardless of the outcome of Putin’s ongoing war of invasion. Modern history shows that occupations…