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PublishedJanuary 21, 2012
FIVE MYTHS: Misunderstandings about the American Dream
Few ideas are as central to American self-identity as the “American dream.” Politicians invoke it, immigrants pursue it, and despite unremittingly negative economic news, citizens embrace it. But what is the American dream? We began regular study of how people define and perceive the dream three years ago, and have discovered many misunderstandings worth a second look.
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PublishedJanuary 21, 2012
How many shining stars extinguished in 39 years of Roe?
All the fuss about Tim Tebow sent me to YouTube to watch the "pro-life" commercial he and his mother did for the 2010 Super Bowl.
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PublishedJanuary 21, 2012
COMMENTARY: Deaths show schools need power of the EpiPen
All children's deaths are tragic, but some are absurdly so.
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PublishedJanuary 21, 2012
COMMENTARY: A case for writing letters, especially by hand
Over the past few years, I've pored over, discussed and even reviewed volumes of letters of such diverse luminaries as Harry Truman, H.L. Mencken, E.B. White, Bertolt Brecht, S.J. Perelman, Toulouse-Lautrec, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Robert Frost, Voltaire, George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt and the veritable, indefatigable master of the genre, Madame de Sevigne.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2012
DENIS THOET: Maine farmers have limited options for health insurance
I am a victim of socialized medicine. When I turned 65 two years ago, I became eligible for Medicare, having weathered three years without any insurance at all. About the same time, I learned that I was eligible for Veterans Health Care, having been a Vietnam-era draftee.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2012
MAINE COMPASS: Why is the organized protest against Lego, and why now?
Just before the holidays, two amazing young bloggers for the SPARK (Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge) movement, Stephanie Cole and Bailey Shoemaker Richards, joined Powered By Girl, the girl activist arm of Hardy Girls Healthy Women, to initiate a protest of Lego's new Friends line for little girls.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2012
GEORGE SMITH: We have some good news (maybe) on state’s environmental front
Good things are happening on two controversial and important environmental issues before the Maine Legislature this session. One concerns waterfowl nesting habitat; the other is all about governance of the North Woods by the Land Use Regulation Commission.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2012
COMMENTARY: Video made the war even tougher
In March, I returned from Afghanistan's Helmand province after handing about 12 square miles of villages and farmlands to the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, the unit that is allegedly responsible for recording a video of Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban insurgents.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2012
MAINE COMPASS: Our health care system needs to stop being an illness care system
Maine's Department of Health and Human Services is in crisis, and it has been proposed that health care coverage be cut to some 65,000 people in Maine.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2012
COMMENTARY: In war, we all desecrate the enemy
The video that emerged last week appearing to show four U.S. Marines urinating on several dead Taliban fighters has outraged many people in this country.
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