Amherst College:  Named after the town, not the General At least they didn't vandalize the sign The irony is probably lost o...

Angela Davis, March 30, UMass Fine Arts Center As both the town's token conservative and proud UMass/Amherst graduate I'm comf...

APD Captain Chris Pronovost (left) Chief Scott Livingstone (right)    Amherst Police Chief Scott Livingston and Captain Chris Pronovos...

Calvin Terrell, Social Justice Warrior Yes I did feel a bit like the school kid squealing to a higher authority about an altercation on...

Today's issue of Charlie Hebdo:  "All is forgiven" Popular American wall poster 1970s

Stephane Charbonnier : "I'd rather die standing up than live on my knees."

North Korea looms in the distance Watching "The Interview" as a means of supporting the First Amendment is a lot easier than...

Opening Christmas Day.   What could go wrong? "But you always risk offending people when you open people's eyes to the way th...

I always cringe when Massachusetts hastily passes a new law in reaction to a high profile event, such as the exceedingly good intentione...

  " Sleepwalker ," Wellesley College.  Photo courtesy theswellesleyreport.com Last week during a C ommunity E mergency R e...

Westboro Trolls doing their thing No , my Irish Catholic upbringing tells me God does not hate anyone -- even bigots looking for med...

Well worn copies of Tintin at the Jones Library So it turns out the only Jones Library copy of the most offensive entry in the "Ti...

Washington Monument (still feeling the effects of an earthquake) Screw the NSA!

I had never heard of -- let alone watched -- Duck Dynasty, until yesterday.  Now I've certainly heard of it.  But no, I'm not ab...

Stop The Retreat: A movement in the weeds So for the Anons who questioned the combative headline in my first ever guest post (probably...

Define "harassed" So maybe school officials should go on a witch hunt to ferret out the other 20% who would not drop a dime o...

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak...

Town Meeting 5/16/11: Solar Farm wins resoundingly This from the minutes of the June 6 T own M eeting C oordinating C ommittee meeting (whic...

The Supreme Court, not surprisingly, ruled 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church to spread vile, hateful, exceedingly painful messages...

"...right of the people peaceably to assemble..." Well we all know the M ain S tream M edia loves irony, and any hard news editor...