I saw something in downtown Amherst that should at least make people stop and ask some questions: red shirts, hammer-and-sickle imagery, Karl Marx on a banner, and people asking passersby, “Are you a communist?” This isn’t somebody doing an edgy college bit. The Revolutionary Communists of America openly describes itself as a revolutionary communist organization…
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I have spent enough time around computers to know that when somebody says there are bugs, they usually mean something inside the software has gone wrong. This time, the bugs were real. I had been asked to help tear down an old shed. The structure was infested, which was one of the reasons it needed…
Read MoreSometimes you buy a movie because you’ve always meant to watch it. Other times, you buy one because the price is right, and you know it’ll eventually come around in your collection. That’s exactly what happened with Paul. As I continue working backward through my iTunes library of more than 400 movies, Paul was the…
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