Elections happened ( Read more... )

A few years ago there was a bunch of talk about "hipsters on food stamps".  The concept was that people who should be working were not, and it made them food insecure.  This is a label that cries out for a fix - hungry people!  That's bad!  Except, well, it turns out that a lot of the reason we strive and struggle and put ourselves out there is ( Read more... )

I'm thinking about AdmNaismith asserting over on Facebook that anyone with an (R) after his name is evil/crazy/stupid and truly thinking he's onto something.  His theory is that 50% of the people he knows - who seem perfectly lucid - are secretly evil/crazy/stupid.  And that theory makes more sense to him than the possibility that other people know things he ( Read more... )

There is a gas pipeline being proposed to run through our rural communities on its way to a port north of Boston.  Landowners were asked for permission to do some initial surveys to try to determine the best place to route it.  The proposed route was through the least densely populated places, which tended to be preserved land and/or state forests ( Read more... )

You know all those meetings I go to (more a few years ago than now) trying to turn my town into a resilient sustainable community to handle Peak Oil and the end of the dollar and the general issues associated with living in an undeveloping nation ( Read more... )