By Michael Kaufman
Why we’ve resisted the cut-rate, mail-order, prescription drug plans promoted by the health-insurance companies.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
Thanksgiving is a holiday built around food. We gather, we gorge, and sometimes acknowledge the hands of the cook, perhaps thanking the divine, but rarely do we honor the hands that feed us.

By Carrie Jacobson
I am thankful every day.

By Jeffrey Page
… that’s fit we will print just as soon as we can figure out what is fit and what is not.

The list of the 20 most influential thinkers of the 20th century is complete. Yes, Bob Dylan made it. Alas. now back to reality.

By Shawn Dell Joyce I was invited to speak to our county’s Planning Board about ways to localize our economy. We first have to realize what our assets are, what resources we have that we can build on. In Orange County, we have a picturesque countryside, a rich history, a growing arts community, many small […]

By Michael Kaufman
The revised data strengthen David Cay Johnston’s conclusion about the failure of US economic policy. Every 34th worker in 2008 had no work in 2009.

It’s great to lift the veil now and again and peer underneath.

Fourth Dimension – In our three dimensional world, we can look at all space as existing on three dimensions. We are limited to length, width, and height, and we can only travel along three perpendicular paths.
In the fourth dimension, these same three axes continue to exist. Added to them, however, is another axis entirely, “Imagination”. Many fascinating possibilities exist when a spatial fourth dimension is present.

By Jeffrey Page
Big Tobacco, bent out of shape because of unsympathetic marketing rules in some developing nations, is suing: The Ugly American strikes again.