VPR: Is it really an improvement?

Vermont Public Radio, the local version of National Public Radio and most widely listened to radio station in the state, recently changed its format. They took all of the classical music which consumed the majority of their daytime programming and moved it to another frequency down the dial. The old 107.4 (In my [...]

I know its early but I started my garden

Even though its nasty outside with sleet and freezing rain coating the trees and downing power lines (our power was off for about three hours tonight) I managed to plant three flats of onion seed and two flats of peppers today. Last year I waited too long to plant the onions and they never [...]

My country tortures people.

Yesterday George Bush vetoed a bill that would make waterboarding illegal. You know, waterboarding. That’s the torture technique that we once referred to as Chinese water torture. That’s the interrogation method that involves pouring water down someones throat so they feel like they are drowning, the same technique that has been made illegal by numerous [...]