Walt Amses

5 days ago | rutlandherald.com | Walt Amses

When we moved into the house one early December over 40 years ago, the first flakes of a powerful winter storm were working their way northward along the Atlantic coast. The big blue spruce was already here but it wasn’t very big at the time, and we didn’t notice it at first. Late autumn 1983 had already delivered several nor’easters with tons of snow and enough cold to have it stick around so the little tree remained mostly buried until the January thaw.

5 days ago | timesargus.com | Walt Amses

When we moved into the house one early December over 40 years ago, the first flakes of a powerful winter storm were working their way northward along the Atlantic coast. The big blue spruce was already here but it wasn’t very big at the time, and we didn’t notice it at first. Late autumn 1983 had already delivered several nor’easters with tons of snow and enough cold to have it stick around so the little tree remained mostly buried until the January thaw.

1 week ago | timesargus.com | Walt Amses

Although Donald Trump’s assault on honesty began almost 10 years ago when the accidental president declared war on press freedom, providing legions of fact checkers with well paying jobs that guaranteed overtime. Even before being elected, the make-believe mogul, already a reality television star thanks to 14 seasons of “The Apprentice,” floated accusations the 2016 election would be “rigged” if he lost, which he fully expected he would, as did everyone else.

2 weeks ago | timesargus.com | Walt Amses

Vladimir Putin, exuding a calm power, glides confidently down the hockey rink, an imperceptible juke splits the defense like the Red Sea and the Russian Strongman slams home his seventh goal of the game. It’s only the first period, but the opposition knows any semblance of actual defending would likely find them taking the ice on the Kamchatka Peninsula for the next five years.

3 weeks ago | timesargus.com | Walt Amses

Bad enough the federal government has been recalibrated into an institution whose only purpose is transforming Donald Trump’s thousands of lies into hardwired Republican dogma, but dismantling everything the country once represented in service to that quest, has sent America reeling.