This Week’s Independent Thinker

The Germans are following the Dutch and the Danes, and that would be a good line to get in. These countries are building bikebahns connecting...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Banks are in business to make money. They loan it, compound it, hold it hostage, exchange it, invest it and sometimes buy uniforms for...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Pictures of strangled dolphins, whales and tuna have been printed worldwide recently. Big fish with so much plastic in and around them, their organs...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Did you ever adopt a dog at the shelter? Name it, feed it, drive with it, let it sleep in the house, and finally,...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

We are accustomed to hearing about anonymous gifts to already thriving entities – St. Jude’s Hospital, Antioch College, the Tea Party. Once in awhile,...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Paul Beatty wrote a book. Who hasn’t? But Beatty’s book, The Sellout, set judges of the Man Booker Prize, Britain’s loftiest literary accolade, into...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Every Wednesday morning at 9:30, troubadors meet for an hour-long rehearsal starting with a group warm up where they get vocal spurring and learn...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Not Without Us is a documentary film that will be shown right here in Happy Town, Friday night at the Aud, and we think...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Remember when ketchup was declared a vegetable in order to provide flexibility and cost effectiveness in school lunch programs? 1981. The public charter Village School...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

“You’re dead. Watch your back. We will burn you down. You should be put in front of a firing squad as a traitor.” This...