Monday, March 29, 2010

History Bullshit Watch: Mayan Mashup

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The History Channel just keeps hitting bottom and digging deeper. Latest example: " Apocalypse Island ," a crackpot program that ...
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Amherst Politics: election over, time to get down to work (with some stray reflections on the media and political discourse)

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Well, last Tuesday, actually, but it took until the end of the week for the media to bring empirical results for the major contests that we...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Vernal Interlude: go green!

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Go Green: forest scene woodcut Ex Libris for a Hungarian book collector, 1937 by Czech artist Jaroslav Dobrovolsky (b. 1895-d. concentrati...

Anti-Override Forces Don't Go Godwin—But Do Play Fast and Loose With the Facts

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The proposed tax override in Amherst is generating at least as much heat as light. I've already noted the rhetorical excess of one anon...

Attempting to intervene in the Middle East conflict, however ineptly or disingenuously, is not the same as genocide

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Those nasty Nazi analogies are all over the place. Most often, nowadays, they of course emanate from the infantile anti-Israel discourse of...

Dudes: Opposing a tax increase doesn't make one a Nazi; let's "damp down" the political rhetoric in Amherst

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As I've said, this blog is not going to turn into one devoted to local politics, but as I also said, there are occasions when the histo...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Closing of Cowls Sawmill

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Year-end catch-up: It is with mixed feelings that one read of the closing of the Cowls sawmill. Shortly after our 250th anniversary year com...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

How Environmentalism and Historic Preservation Got Me Started in My "Political Career' (while I was still a schoolchild)

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As I contemplated running for office in this town where "only the ‘h’ is silent ” and “ reality is an option ,” I asked myself not only...

I am a Candidate for Amherst Select Board

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Our town is governed by a number of elected offices and bodies, chief among them a representative Town Meeting (254 members) that serves a...

Save the Program That Saves Our Treasures: National Trust Highlights Emily Dickinson Museum

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The blog of the National Trust for Historic Preservation has a brief piece on one of our local landmarks . Jason Clement's "This T...