Variety Weighs In On The NY Times’ Coverage Of Gibson’s Passion Peter Bart of Variety says, “it’s a movie, not a political tract. It represents Gibson’s vision, not his rhetoric. As such, it deserves to be judged as art, not prejudged as ideology. There are legitimate disagreements about the film’s take on biblical history. What […]

Get Your Printer Ink, Prayer Request, With LaserMonks High-quality low-cost printer ink, toner etc. from the monks at the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank in Wisconsin. The LaserMonks tell us that the ordinary markup on printing supplies is sinfully high.

Ice Out, Lakers and Landlocks In! They’ve officially declared ice-out on the big lake and people are catching some big, big fish. Check out this week’s fishing report from NH Fish and Game, posted on NH.com. There are some good tips for fishing the lakes, and a picture of a kid with a 7-pound-plus salmon […]

Vatican Says Mass Norms Must Be Followed Exactly To Ensure Reverence

My Old Pal Kevin Named Editor In Brattleboro Kevin Moran was just named editor at the Reformer, leaving his post at The North Adams Transcript, his hometown paper and the paper where I got my start in newspapers. In fact, it was Kevin who led to my getting my first newspaper job. I hope the […]

We Win! The Telegraph Online won Best Overall in its division (under 40,000) for the New England Associated Press News Executives Association (NEAPNEA) Web site contest. Boy does that feel good!

Who’s Bad? Kristen sent me this note: “Just thought you would get a kick out of this…I was trying to mop the porch floor this morning and David wanted to help so I let him dump the mop in the bucket and had him clean the floor a little and when I told him it […]

Holy Cards See Resurgence In Popularity

Huckleberry Above A Persimmon! Languagehat.com blogs on a great resource for 19th century slang: the Camp Chase Gazette and its 19th Century Slang Dictionary. “Huckleberry above a persimmon” means “a cut above,” by the way.