It’s a measure of a stagnant, mediocre political class that it substitutes ever-more flamboyant rhetoric for ordinary language. A normal, common person might describe a meeting as “pretty good, but a lit too long.” By contrast, cheerleaders of all things status quo would describe that event differently: “The exciting and informative meeting, described by everyone…

There are lots of interesting items that one can find for sale, of memorabilia of a town’s past. I found something like that recently, and thought readers might find it interesting. It’s a postcard of Fairhaven, in Whitewater, from decades ago. (I’ve no connection to Fairhaven, except to know of it as a senior care…