by Sharon Shaloo | Jul 24, 2008 | The Public Humanist
This is the first of what I hope will become regular posts to the Public Humanist. I’m writing from the new offices of the Massachusetts Center for the Book, which will officially open its doors this fall on the campus of Historic Northampton. The office was...
by James Heflin | Jul 24, 2008 | Ten Gallon Liberal
The ACLU’s just revealed that the "terrorist watch list" has hit one million names! This isn’t even the "terrorist suspect list," mind. You’re a terrorist or you wouldn’t be on it, right? Which is why those unfortunates who...
by Northampton Redoubt | Jul 24, 2008 | Northampton Redoubt
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO SCHEDULING PROBLEMS AT LOOK PARK Valley Free Radio WXOJ-LP 103.3fm 140 Pine Street, Florence, MA 01062 413-585-1033 www.valleyfreeradio.org THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED DUE TO SCHEDULING PROBLEMS AT THE PINES THEATER IN...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jul 24, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
(Part one) (Part two) So anyway, at this same picnic, you remember, the one by the river with the famous person at it, one of the hosts, I’ll call her WAF, was sitting across from me at our picnic table full of yummy stuff, when, out of the blue, and with...
by Maureen Turner | Jul 24, 2008 | News
At the time, it might have seemed a King Solomon-like solution to the ever-contentious problem of Springfield's municipal towing contract: in April, 2007 then-Mayor Charlie Ryan decided that rather than select one of the two companies vying for the contract,...