American Athens

Testing this, as it’s been a while.

Our man, middle-aged and gray, entered the cafe. Walking up to the counter, he surveyed the small seating area. “Only a few tonight.” He thought. “Still, small for a friday.” “I’ll have a coffee, black, please. Small, please.” He said. “Will that be all, sir” the counter […]

It was either that or “Neato gang! Super duper!”
It’s been a longtime coming, and in my heart, I’d hoped it would have been a foregone conclusion. But it was a long, hard fight. Equal marriage is finally safe in Massachusetts, thanks to the untiring efforts of activists, legislators and ordinary people who acted on […]

Though the timing and location were released earlier, Mitt Romney’s choice of Michigan — and specifically the Henry Ford Museum — to start his Presidential campaign made some news yesterday on the internets. This morning, the Globe’s Scott Helman has an article about the announcement and the history of the Romney name in politics.
Romney had […]

A few years back, when I was a freshman in college, one of my first friends made was a libertarian. He wasn’t a “libertarian when convenient” like so many of our chirping pundits or Republican congresspeople, but a legitimate libertarian with whom I spent hours arguing about whether or not the government should continue to […]