The View from Down Here

If Ted Kaczynski was still alive, Trump would appoint him ATF director. — Roger Goun (@roger.goun.co) November 20, 2024 at 8:41 AM Obviously I wrote this sarcastically. But it turns out that Blake Masters, Donald Trump's nominee to be the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol,

These are the two photos I submitted to the New Hampshire Center for Photography's 2025 exhibition at Town Hall in Exeter. The opening reception is Saturday, 4 January from 12–4 PM. The show runs 12–4 PM on weekends until 26 January. This is always a great

We were in Concord with friends last night for dinner and a concert. Since we were early, we stopped to pay our respects to the Christa McAuliffe statue on the grounds of the New Hampshire State House. It gets dark early in New England after Daylight Saving Time ends[1]

A black SUV pulls up to the curb at a home in Durham, New Hampshire and Martin O'Malley steps out. It's May, 2015 and Gov. O'Malley is running for president. He walks up a few steps and onto the lawn, where I've

...to point out that the Boston Red Sox are in the hunt to sign free agent Juan Soto for next season. The 26 year-old Soto is a generational talent who could be the cornerstone of the Red Sox offense for years to come. Soto's first meeting with Red

We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman. Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to cross the street to avoid will be addressed as Mr. President. Where the body I haven’t fully grown

A Reuters article reports on Muslim Americans' disappointment that their support for Trump's election has not magically resulted in a change in his longstanding unconditional support for Israel. U.S. Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration's support for

Farewell to Tony Todd, who guest starred in one of the greatest episodes of Star Trek ever filmed, "Deep Space Nine" season 4's "The Visitor". He had a lot of other wonderful TV, Broadway, and film roles, too, but this is the one I&

I handed Jody an unopened Amazon box and told her it was an early birthday gift. But I was confused about which order it was—it turned out to be a bottle of Zout.

We are truly living in the weirdest possible timeline. “We thought this would be a hilarious joke,” said Ben Collins. He is correct. I haven’t been so speechless since Matt Gaetz was nominated for attorney general.

Trump makes history by selecting the first Secretary of State to have criticized his future boss for the size of his penis pic.twitter.com/hDPyuhda5a — Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) November 12, 2024 I was prepared to be horrified by President-Elect Trump's Cabinet picks, but I wasn't

Today I learned, to my great pleasure, that the MINI Cooper key fob remote control uses the same battery as the Apple AirTag. I only have two key fobs—an EDC and a spare—but I have So. Many. AirTags. Which is why I have a lot of CR 2032

The Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank was born 100 years ago today. In 1955, Frank received a Guggenheim Fellowship and used the money to travel across the United States and photograph the people and places he found there. The book that resulted, The Americans, redefined what photography could be. Decades later,