Archives: November 2010
My Platform for Non-Office
A native son offers a few modest proposals.As a patriotic citizen I am proud to announce that, unlike just about everybody else in New Hampshire, I am not running for office. However, I do have some ideas for solving our state’s problems, which I am happy to share.Congress à la CarteThe more people you have in an organization, the greater…
Cover Magus – BJ Hickman
In 1969 Richard M. Nixon was president of the United States, man first landed on the moon, and 16-year-old magician BJ Hickman joined The International Brotherhood of Magicians. Some 41 years later The I.B.M. honored Hickman in a cover story in their journal, The Linking Ring. The feature article, “BJ Hickman – Magician of Many Talents” by Bobby Warren, reviewed…
Take it from P.J.
In time for the mid-term elections, O’Rourke ruminates anew on exactly why and just how badly politics stink.Politics is a familiar beat for Peterborough’s P.J. O’Rourke, whose book titles alone (“Parliament of Whores,” “Give War a Chance,” “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”) serve as some of the more potent conservative polemics of our age. His…
State House Socialism
The Feds aren’t hiding in your closet. They are holding up your roof.Staunch Libertarians and committed members of the Free State movement have long been attracted to New Hampshire for our decentralized politics and “Live Free or Die” mindset.So it must be stunning to them that somehow the Granite State has emerged to be the most socialist state in the…
Learning the Ropes
Taking to Great Bay to farm glistening morsels for local raw bars.Consider the oyster – cold, briny succulence. The gray amorphous bodies of the bivalve mollusk arrive on your plate nicely chilled, their defensive shell levered apart revealing the inner treasure – still alive. Put the beautifully shaped shell up to your lips and let the body slide in and…
Going Native
From Merrimack to Chocorua, from Nashua to Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire owes much of its nomenclature to its pre-Colonial native people. But for a state so rich with Indian names and legends, official tribal status here is nil and offices for the Penacook and Abenaki consist of a phone and a street address. But that’s about to change since, this summer,…
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