

Montreal, Make It a Double
Not every Vermont taxi company will accept a run to Montreal. You’ll have to ask them for their reasons, because I am so going. I…
Charmed, I’m Sure
Reflecting on the last “Hackie” column, “A Beautiful Nose,” I thought about a recent exchange with a fellow cabbie at Muddy Waters. We were waiting…
For Now, Stick With Flatbread…
The Vermont Department of Health just issued a press release warning consumers to avoid any Totino’s and Jeno’s frozen pizzas with pepperoni (including “Totino’s Party…
Food Poetry: Crazy About Her Shrimp (re-posted)
(I am reposting an earlier entry, but with changes — I excerpted the poem and linked to it instead of posting the whole thing.)When I…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Hoping to avoid ground-level alarms, burglars decided to cut through a roof to enter a business in Des Moines, Iowa. Instead, they…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A top official at the European Robotics Research Network predicts that humans will “be having sex with robots” sooner than anyone…
Big Picture Politics
Vermont’s newest think tank – Public Assets Institute – does the state’s math homework
Weekly Dose
A Middlebury volunteer clinic quietly cares for the un- and underinsured – including migrant workers






