Justin Katz
Boy does this sound familiar: “There is a process called negotiation by which issues get resolved,” James P. Dwyer III, a teacher, wrote in a Nov. 29 e-mail to School Committee member Stephen A. DeCastro. It was titled, Democratic Society. DeCastro read it at the committee’s meeting last Tuesday. He read his two-page response aloud…
Well, “hate” is a bit strong; “suspect” would be better. A few things I read yesterday jointly bring into focus the feeling that a large segment of the political right likely has about Mike Huckabee. The good comes from Mark Steyn: Because Mike Huckabee mentioned “the birth of Christ”, he liberated the equivocal tentative finger-in-the-windy…
“A hobby that got out of hand.” That’s what Ron Voake, of Norwich, a Vermonter of the old sort, says regarding his booming business as a wooden toy maker: Mr. Voake, the owner of Vermont Wooden Toys, has been deluged with orders from customers leery of buying toys made in China after millions of toys…
Warren Throckmorton’s Friday Journal piece serves to leaven the surreality of the professor quoted my previous post (and I don’t say that solely because I love the name Throckmorton): Many make the Santa Claus-like association of this story to Saint Nicholas the gift giver. I see an additional angle. For reasons that often involve money,…
I’ve devoted part of my mind — as I’ve worked throughout this pre-Christmas weekend — to an attempt to decipher the anagram that must surely lie behind the name Henry Rosemont Jr. He’s one of the three academics with whom li’l’ ol’ carpenter Katz shared the Providence Journal’s editorial pages on Friday, and I’ve found…
By the way, I would be shirking my agitator’s duty if I didn’t highlight some folks who managed to get out to Fall River and counterprotest the picket that didn’t happen: But even though a judge had said such picketing would be legal, the union didn’t show up. Instead, two Portsmouth residents stood outside the…
Mike Squatrito is in the local news regarding the just-published sequel in his Overlords series. You’ll note, if you browse his site, that the second book’s cover is a significant upgrade from the first, for which Mike can thank Anchor Rising’s sometime brush-for-hire Colby Cook. Mike also goes to my church, as it happens. He…
My piece in the Providence Journal today addresses some common misconceptions about Rhode Islanders’ voting habits and the implications for non-partisan elections. Colby Cook illustrated the piece with a cartoon, which is thus far an Anchor Rising exclusive:
Could there be a better expression of Rhode Island’s erroneous mentality than EMT’s comment to Marc’s post on the triple-dipper union fireman? So why is this only OK for union presidents who don’t rock the boat? All you conspiracy theorists REALLY believe that Cicilline didn’t feed this straight to the Journal, who are trying to…
Also in yesterday’s Sakonnet Times is an article about the transitional pains at one of the Tiverton elementary schools that I mentioned last week. Principal Ed Fava ends the article on an interesting note, albeit by missing the more significant factor: Mr. Fava has one more stress to add to his list this month: a…
