Erudite yet kind…

by | Feb 3, 2009 | Valley Locavore

Locavore diet today: soup at farmer & baker conference with raw ricotta and squash, greens with a fried egg on top, stilton cheese (england – 5000 miles) and locavore bread made of beets, local wheat, wicked strong starter and butter….and wine. Updike...

The Curious Case of Bible Spice

by | Feb 3, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Two pieces of today's news are certainly prompters of mixed feelings. First up is word that Obama is continuing the CIA practice of rendition. This is certainly a matter that requires a grasp of subtlety–there is rendition, then there's...
Politics in the People's Academy

Politics in the People's Academy

by | Feb 3, 2009 | News

If a business or an average member of the public had wanted to open the doors of the Northampton Academy of Music for a free public screening of Obama's inauguration, it's unlikely they would have ever have gotten the idea beyond the pipe dream stage. It costs...

Of Rivals and Corn Nuts

by | Feb 3, 2009 | News

Dear Vice President Joseph Biden:It says here on the TV that you & the president have made a “team of rivals.” That is interesting b/c what you probly do not know is I (Frank Dodge) and my neighbor Jake are also a team of rivals, sort of.So I am...