I am someone who both lives in conservative Western Maine and leans very far left. I grew up in Cornish, where I returned 5 years ago upon inheriting my family home. Thanks in large part to my proximity to that region, I have never found the conservative leanings of anywhere outside of Portland and the […]
Andrew Ian Dodge died on Friday at the age of 46. While I was not regularly in touch with Andrew, I will miss him. He stirred the pot and he had a lot of fun doing so. He was a good, funny and weird dude and we had some great exchanges. Andrew has been described […]
I went to Sacopee Valley, a five town consolidated district high school located in rural Western, Maine. I was a kid that fit in with most everyone, but not enough to identify with any one group. I was sensitive, as I still am, and I wanted to be perceived as an intellectual even though I […]
Note: There are two occurrences of profanity in this piece, which might somehow offend some readers more than anything Ann Coulter has ever said. The outcomes of last week’s election were less about affirmation of President Obama’s vision, the size of government, and/or the rights of gay people and pot-smokers than they were about a […]
