Maine dodged a bullet last week when superstorm Sandy took a sharp left-hand turn, moving inland well to our south and delivering only a glancing blow to Maine.

Think about Stephen King books with disturbing themes and the tale of the Overlook, a malevolent hotel, might come to mind, or Christine, a malevolent Plymouth.

If you want to make God laugh, says the proverb, tell him your plans.

Exposure to nuclear waste is dangerous. Exposure to hypocrisy over nuclear waste also should be avoided.

Sometimes the key to a successful campaign is a good get-out-the-vote effort in which volunteers call and visit sympathetic voters, making sure they don’t forget to cast a ballot, sometimes even offering a ride to the polls.

Superstorm Sandy has been called a lot of names, but “surprise” was not one of them.

Of all the analyses of both Hurricane Sandy and the 2012 election, one question is not getting the attention it deserves.

The race is over for Lance Armstrong, but the question remains: What lasting impact will his years of cheating and denying have on the future of cycling and other sports?

Watch the presidential debates and get a heavy dose about what’s wrong with politic discourse in America. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama tried to out-shout each other, ignoring moderators’ directives and plunging onward with accusatory tones, gross distortions, dismissive eye-rolls and a few snotty asides.

The real perversion of the Boy Scouts of America’s so-called perversion files — compiled to blacklist accused sexual predators — is that they did more to protect the reputation of the organization than to safeguard young, vulnerable boys. By quietly pushing volunteer Scout leaders to resign in lieu of reporting accusations of sexual abuse to […]