The World This Week: Nafty Business

by | Nov 29, 2007 | News

While the cat has been away in Iraq, the mice have been at play here in the United States. More like rats than mice, actually, they've set up one of the worst traps in American history. And we are all about to drive right into it. The latest rat trap goes by the...

What Do You Think?

by | Nov 29, 2007 | News

How Terrorists WinDuring the Democratic debate on CNN, they flashed a question—I’m paraphrasing from memory—“What is more important, backing an ally in the war on terror or sticking to democratic ideals?” This is an inane question. If we...
Soundcheck: Keeping the Flame

Soundcheck: Keeping the Flame

by | Nov 29, 2007 | Music

At least twice in Northampton history, the iconic painting of the Handsome Waiter has been kidnapped and returned from the former Baystate Hotel, once by my own whack-job housemates when I lived on Kingsley Ave. in 1996, and again by some anonymous abductor when the...
Nightcrawler: Monkey Business

Nightcrawler: Monkey Business

by | Nov 29, 2007 | Music

For those who choose to take their level of musicianship past that of the occasional noodler, the path is often much akin to that of any other lifelong addiction.The first instrument’s usually free—a Christmas present from grandma or a birthday gift from...

FreeSport: Thanksgiving Picks '07

by | Nov 29, 2007 | Leisure

For football fans, there are few days on the calendar bigger than Thanksgiving. While some people are content to lie out on the Lay-Z-Boy after a huge plate of turkey and stuffing to watch the Dallas Cowboys or Detroit Lions tee it up, for a lot of heartier souls, a...