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Thankful for ‘chain of silence’

High on any list of things for which to be thankful as the Thanksgiving holiday looms has to be the run of picture-perfect Indian summerlike weather we have enjoyed for the greater part of November. more

By Kent Ward | 11/21/09 | 13 views

Reading news with ‘maturity’

I know this letter will come to you as surprise one but I want you to read this with maturity,” the Nigerian scam e-mail message began. more

By Kent Ward | 11/14/09 | 286 views

Thoughts for an Election Day post-mortem

It was weird the way the vote in a Bangor Daily News daily poll question on current events mirrored, in percentages, the performance of voters on Question 1 in this week’s election. On Tuesday, … more

By Kent Ward | 11/7/09 | 581 views

Surviving Series and Election Day

This weekend, when the responsible citizen should, I suppose, be thinking about a personal plan of attack to be executed in the voting booth on Election Day next Tuesday, my mind wanders instead to … more

By Kent Ward | 10/31/09 | 308 views

Snowe vote and Trojan horse theory

For eight years, all former President George W. Bush had to do to set off liberals, driving them into fits of frustration and rage as few previous presidents could, was show up for work in the morning. more

By Kent Ward | 10/24/09 | 630 views

Of prizes and prize commentary

Upon hearing that President Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize last week, former Polish President Lech Walesa, the 1983 winner, is reported to have said, “So soon?” more

By Kent Ward | 10/17/09 | 3853 views

What rocks not is docs in frocks

In my dictionary, the word “hokum” — defined as “a device used (as by showmen) to evoke a desired audience response” — is not accompanied by a picture of Monday’s “Docs in Frocks” … more

By Kent Ward | 10/10/09 | 712 views

The Loring UFO episode revisited

Thirty-four years ago this month, at the height of a glorious 41-year run that ended in 1994, the former Loring Air Force Base, off to my northwest, was in an uproar about several close encounters of … more

By Kent Ward | 10/3/09 | 846 views

The proper use of dots and lines

Most people standing in the unemployment line these days are likely more concerned with finding a job than with improving their punctuation skills. National Punctuation Day, observed for the first … more

By Kent Ward | 9/26/09 | 395 views