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D.P. Welch: The Bulldozer Sits At The Ready
Friday, 31 March 2006, 11:00 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
A song inspired by the sight of a backhoe poised menacingly on the meadow behind our school, glinting in the moonlight. Open land is disappearing in Massachusetts at nearly seven times the rate of population growth, as compliant Conservation Commissions ... More >>
Saint Patrick's Day: Needlessly Missed Opportunity
Monday, 20 March 2006, 12:40 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
Another Saint Patrick's Day is here, with its tacky kegs of green beer, leprechauns, lucky charms, fake plastic hats and all imaginable variety of gaudy faux-Irish...um..."charm." But it needn't be so. The holiday offers up an incredible opportunity to expose children ... More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Bread and Roses
Monday, 13 March 2006, 12:27 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
Given the state of politics in the US and the moribund resistance from popular forces, it is often surprising to many that some of the great struggles of our time had their start in the Belly of the Beast. More >>
Think Global, Act Local: Rinse, Repeat, Die
Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 12:56 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
Think globally, act locally—this has been the mantra of activists worldwide since at least the 1970s, so much so that it has become cliché, coopted, and corporatized as much as any slogan or phrase since “the American people,” or “my good friend.” More >>
All A Twitter Over Cheney's IItchy Trigger Finger
Tuesday, 14 February 2006, 2:14 pm | Daniel Patrick Welch
Of course, most of you already know I’ve never been the Vice President’s biggest fan. I’ve often confused him with Lon Cheney, and yes, I’ve had him in my sights before…er, so to speak. But I find it unconscionable that the left wing punditocracy ... More >>
What an Idiot!
Friday, 3 February 2006, 2:38 pm | Daniel Patrick Welch
When Gore Vidal endorsed last night's demonstrations against Bush's ridiculous I-am-the-state theatrical stunt, he added the pithy comment: "Go back to Crawford…. We’ll help raise the money for a library, and you'll never even ever have to read a book." More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Pants on Fire
Friday, 13 January 2006, 2:11 pm | Daniel Patrick Welch
Sam Alito is merely the latest liar on the block for Bush's full spectrum dominance agenda. But the show-trial hearings on whether this proto-fascist ideologue should be allowed to shape US social and political development for a generation provide ... More >>
Greenhouse School Student Wins Top Art Honor
Monday, 9 January 2006, 2:24 pm | Daniel Patrick Welch
SALEM--As the "youngest" of triplets, Timothy Bogomolov is constantly reminded by his "older" siblings, Larisa and Alexander, that he was the last born. This time, however, it is Timothy's turn to shine. The second grader at The Greenhouse ... More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Nothing to Lose
Wednesday, 2 November 2005, 1:53 pm | Daniel Patrick Welch
Senator Harry Reid, the minority leader of the upper chamber of the U.S. Government, infuriated the Bush administration and its Republican cronies on Tuesday by forcing the body into closed session. The move is allowed under a little used rule that permits ... More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Try And Catch The Wind
Friday, 14 October 2005, 3:39 pm | Daniel Patrick Welch
To understand fully the nature of the American dilemma, one has only to view it from slightly outside the bubble. My wife and I have been restricted from foreign travel for various bureaucratic and financial reasons; but our sanity depends on hundreds ... More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: People's Hurricane (Song)
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 3:18 pm | Daniel Patrick Welch
The rebel tradition has a long history of borrowing from gospel and popular songs, from the Wobblies' Amazing Boss to Get on Board of the Civil Rights movement. Don't you weep after me is an old gospel song that has been well used, the most poignant ... More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Only in America
Monday, 5 September 2005, 12:18 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
"Galveston had a seawall, just to keep the waters down. But the high tide from the ocean spread the water over the town." The worst hurricane in US history saw almost 6000 people drowned in Galveston, Texas a little over a century ago, in a human tragedy ... More >>
Where Have all the Soldiers Gone?
Friday, 2 September 2005, 11:29 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
The worst hurricane in US history saw almost 6000 people drowned in Galveston, Texas a little over a century ago, in a human tragedy immortalized by Tom Rush's mournful 1960 ballad. But it was an event not only remembered in folklore, but enshrined forever ... More >>
D.P Welch: What Our Kids Don’t Know Can Hurt Us
Monday, 29 August 2005, 4:21 pm | Daniel Patrick Welch
Americans know so little about the world that it is hard to imagine that one continent could be worse than the others. Daniel Patrick Welch explores the depth of ignorance about Africa through the eyes of the press. More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Is Gotham Worth Saving?
Monday, 27 June 2005, 11:02 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
Summer is here. The choking ajajas of Baghdad coat everything in a pale yellow dust. Meanwhile, back at imperial headquarters, the sandman effect of the Summer movie list coaxes Americans back to sleep, our attention spans and consciences soothed ... More >>
2004: A Terrible Beauty
Tuesday, 4 January 2005, 11:59 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
We hailed the New Millennium The dawn of change had come Our future lay before us bright and clear But somehow now we’ve lost our way The future’s on the run As we try to shed our past for one more year More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Arma-geddon Sick of You
Monday, 8 November 2004, 6:06 pm | Daniel Patrick Welch
Bush's Sword of Damocles is poised above the people and city of Fallujah, ready to wreak the pent-up wrath his addled brain thinks his tainted election victory permits. More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: We Are Here! We Are Here!
Thursday, 4 November 2004, 12:13 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
For several months, one of my brothers, who is a bit prone to hyperbole, kept insisting that speculation about the election was meaningless, basically because it wasn't going to happen. More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: It's the Policies, Stupid
Wednesday, 3 November 2004, 11:08 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
As Americans gather to excerise their god-given right to pick the leader of the free world, that world huddles anxiously in the far-flung corners of the planet to see what comes next. More >>
D.P. Welch: Mr. President: I Have A Plan!!!
Friday, 15 October 2004, 10:38 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
Old fans of Dr. Strangelove will warm to the spectacle of the Commission on Presidential Debates organizing to let their two men put their plans before the American People. Think about that for a moment while I finish watching the ''debate''. More >>
