Category Archives: Columns

Prez Hall: new wine [op-ed ]

Much of Wellfleet turned out on May 14th for the kickoff of Preservation Hall on Main Street. The whole opening week of free concerts and other pleasures it was the place to be, to witness, to celebrate and feel like part of this history being made. A Wellfleet love-in at its most intense. The Washashore […]

May 31, 2011 – 3:37 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged | Comments (0)

[op-ed] Budget solution hiding in plain sight

The national budget crisis has been melodramatized as a diabolical puzzle with no solution but an uncomfortable sounding one involving “biting the bullet,” “sucking it up” and “cutting to the bone,” with most of the biting, sucking and cutting being done by (and to) the great majority of us. A certain logic limits our thinking […]

May 17, 2011 – 6:45 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Comments (0)

[op-ed] Widespread climate change denial

I’ve only recently been hearing the term Climate Change Denier for those who don’t believe in the disastrous future scientists are predicting. Harsh rebuke indeed, given the inevitable association with holocaust denial—a reprehensible Orwellian lie about historical fact and insult to the millions who suffered that past, some of whom are still amongst us. This […]

April 5, 2011 – 2:16 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged | Comments (0)

[ op-ed ] An exceptionally naïve and dangerous concept

To us revolution is a spectator sport. We look on with curiosity as Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya evolve, revolve, transform. Their struggles get our attention, maybe even our admiration. But they don’t apply to us. We are unchanging, static. We had our revolution a long time ago and that was that. Having gotten out from […]

March 22, 2011 – 2:46 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)

[op-ed] What this world is coming to

This is a Janus column. Janus, the two faced god who faces simultaneously the future and the past. Perhaps those of us of a certain age (probably anything over 15 or 20) will come to be known as the Janus generation, (Gen Jan in the shorthand of generation naming), with one foot (and a big […]

January 11, 2011 – 3:29 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)