Jon Reisman I took another snap trip down the airline and beyond, this time all the way to Windham and back, with a drive through drive-by-shooting third-world Lewiston before entering the First Congressional District. I wasn’t asked for my papers or passport despite the Collins/Charles/
Jon Reisman I made a snap trip down the airline to Bangor to attend the Bobby Charles affordable energy policy presser. A crowd of about 50 materialized at the no-frills business incubator building just off the airport, where Flexware entrepreneur and Charles/LePage energy policy advisor Jim LaBrecque is
Jon Reisman On Sept. 10th, I attended a zoom meeting/briefing/webinar put on by the Department of Energy Resources, Maine’s newest cabinet level agency. The DOER (https://www.maine.gov/energy/home) is a legacy of eight years of Janet Mills, Hannah Pingree, and Democratic control of Maine.
Jon Reisman I thoroughly enjoyed a spectacular early September, including crisp morning walks, blue skies, warm sunny afternoons, haunting loon cries at dusk, and moonlit starry skies with an occasional shooting star. I spent almost 50 Septembers on New England college campuses as a student (Colby, Brown, University of Southern
Jon Reisman An end-of-summer visit from my late wife’s best high school friend and our Maid of Honor, coupled with some traditional Downeast activities involving lobster, clams, blueberries, the Red Sox, Cathance Lake’s clear cold waters, and some deep conversations and reminisces about faith, family, freedom,
Jon Reisman The recent Red Sox resurgence from last place to playoff contention set me off on a baseball reverie. The Sox spent April, May, and most of June as one of the worst teams in baseball, but July and August have seen them transformed into a scrappy and entertaining
Jon Reisman I watched the Fauci Fifth Amendment Fiasco and came away concerned that we are descending into the Orwellian public ritual of the two minutes hate. In 1984, Big Brother organizes mandatory daily rage rituals where Party enemy Emmanuel Goldstein is pilloried and hated. Orwell’s dystopian allusions to
Jon Reisman Mid-July featured Bastille Day, Biddeford ICE/Orange Man Bad protests/riots, continued Platner fasciitis inflammation, and discomfort with a two round circus maximus Democratic Senate forum on NBC affiliate NewsCenter Maine followed by a Trumpian Presidential address (which NBC declined to cover) where The Donald declassified a
Jon Reisman The Collins/Platner dueling Downeast July Fourth parade marches included hurled water balloons in Eastport, septuagenarian Senator Susan marching and mingling in 80+ degree heat in both Eastport and Machias, and an early Platner Eastport exit followed by a no-show in Machias as the rape allegations were
Jon Reisman Several friends and acquaintances have sent me missives suggesting that my tone in recent weeks has become increasingly partisan and confrontational, and that I am suffering from Platner Derangement Syndrome (PDS). I think that’s a misdiagnosis, and that I actually have Platner Traumatic Socialism Disorder (PTSD), which
The very thing women are counting on to protect them — feminism — is undermining what feminism purports to want: good men. Carrie Gress, Phd. Many years ago, friends of mine got married in Colorado. My brother, who was just rediscovering his Catholic faith, came with me. We grew up in Eugene,
Jon Reisman Our 250th birthday celebration of Freedom and the Declaration of Independence will feature dueling parade appearances on July 4 — Susan Collins will be marching in Eastport, while Graham Platner is scheduled for Machias. It seems to me we are marching towards civil war, and that life, liberty, and
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