Along with several other states, it’s Primary Day here in Vermont.  In most places, polls are open until 7:00 PM. If you don’t vote today, your license to bitch about almost anything is revoked.  If you don’t vote today, shut the hell up.  You don’t get democracy.

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The way I see it,  you turn fifty and you have only two choices.  You can buy into middle age and prepare for that gradual decline of…everything.  OR…you do what you can to fight the common wisdom and make however long you’re given…whether a week, a month, or thirty years…as productive and active as possible.  [...]

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“Women are sex objects, but that’s only a part of who they are. If women weren’t sex objects, then we’d never have a second generation. It’s that interaction between the two sexes that makes the world go ’round. It is the center of civilization. It’s why women wear lipstick. And it’s playing a game of [...]

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Open Letter to First Lady Michelle Obama Dear Michelle, I am a chef at an independent high school in Northern Vermont. Your work with the White House garden and promoting healthy food choices has been amazing. Presidential food influences have historically meant penchants for jellybeans and Big Macs™, unease with grocery stores, vegetables, and scallops, [...]

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Vermonters turned out along roadsides this morning in tribute to a fallen Vermont soldier.

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COLCHESTER, Vermont — A Vermont National Guard soldier has died in Afghanistan, the state’s Adjutant Gen. Michael Dubie said.Dubie said Specialist Ryan Grady, 25, of West Burke, Vt., was killed by an improvised explosive device near Bagram.Grady, who was the son of a guard members and the brother of a soldier currently serving in Afghanistan, [...]

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James Taylor – Summer\’s Here Summer’s here, I’m for that. Got my rubber sandals, got my straw hat. Got my cold beer, I’m just glad that it’s here. Summer’s here, that suits me fine. It may rain today but I don’t mind. It’s my favorite time of the year and I’m glad that it’s here. [...]

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(The Letter is written by Perry Simon from AllAccess.com, and is reprinted with permission.  We post these for both the doomsayers like Vivian Schiller of National Public Radio and for the technocrats who worry more about a music bed that wasn’t long enough for a remote break than the CONTENT of what they’re putting on [...]

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