Do conservative women look for different qualities of masculinity in men than liberal women do? Is sex appeal not so much in the eye, but in a point of view? Do young Republicans and young Democrats have different ideas about “hooking up” (which is what young people call pairing off).Like everything else in the soft […]

I confess that in spite of residing in Maine for almost 40 years, I am “from away.” I mean really “from away.” I hail from New Hampshire, and worse yet, it is from central New Hampshire. Indeed, pure Maine lore maintains one must be conceived, born and live in Maine to be a native Mainer. […]

Increasingly, Americans won’t and don’tBy Roger Doiron “If you are careful, if you use good ingredients, and you don’t take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day: what you make to eat…Cooking therefore can keep a person who tries […]

Until the investigations are completed, the only thing we can say for certain is that we do not know the precise cause of the cascading power outages that triggered the largest blackout in history and affected 50 million people from the Midwest to the East. Even industrial customers in Maine felt the affects of voltage […]

BANGOR – In a matter of milliseconds, power generators throughout the state could have gone off line and Maine could have been a part of the biggest blackout in the country’s history.That didn’t happen, of course, but the possibility of that happening is real. Power generators throughout the state, all managed by computers that are […]

The following editorial appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Tuesday, Aug. 19: The secret to a successful diet isn’t just eating less but moving around more. Too bad too many state legislators across the nation refuse to accept it. Instead, they seem to have swallowed whole the notion that the national epidemic of obesity […]

AUSTIN, Texas – When in the midst of a Blame Typhoon, with charges and counter-charges being hurled in all directions, I find it most useful to consult those two polar stars of utter wrongheadedness, Tom DeLay and The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page.A column about energy politics by George Mellon in last Tuesday’s Journal contained […]

Whoa! This can’t be happening. No state can take away Florida’s title of “The Doofus State.” CALIFORNIA – I came out here because I’ve been reading disturbing reports that my state, Florida, is about to lose the coveted title of “The Doofus State,” which we Floridians worked so hard to win following the 2000 presidential […]

WASHINGTON – The new law of American governance is: Failure should be handsomely rewardedThose in intelligence who failed to sound the alarm before Sept. 11 were not punished for their failure but, rather, were rewarded with draconian authority that they had long coveted. Those who told President Bush that Iraq was bristling with weapons of […]

A young woman I know got the last bus out of New York before the big blackout of ’03. When the bus hadn’t arrived in Washington nearly an hour after it was scheduled, we began asking why. Nobody knew when to expect it or even if it was on the way.Nobody thought this unusual. Bus […]