Walt Amses

United States

Writer at Freelance

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Articles

Amses: It can happen in Vermont

6 days 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.
Amses: Early spring romance

1 week ago | timesargus.com | Walt Amses

Today is opening day of the Vermont fishing season, which in my experience, has meant far more in the mythology of trout than any measure of achievement calculated through the number of fish brought to net.
Amses: A voice in the darkness

2 weeks ago | timesargus.com | Walt Amses

If predictions hold true, today should be the day Donald Trump’s warped delusion of an international focus entirely on him reaches fruition, just not necessarily in the way he’s fantasized about for years. While Americans are increasingly taking issue with the federal government being either decimated into uselessness or substantially retooled to address the president’s laundry list of personal grievances, the rest of the world is taking notice as well.
Amses: What would Cronkite think?

3 weeks ago | timesargus.com | Walt Amses

I’ve been on the periphery of journalism since the late 1960s when I spent nearly four years as editor-in-chief of a weekly Air Force publication where, due to almost constant reassignments, there was an inordinate amount of staff turnover, often leaving me as the only staff member left in the office. It was certainly heady being the boss, but giving directives to yourself quickly mitigates any delusions of grandeur you may harbor.
Amses: DEI just the beginning

1 month ago | timesargus.com | Walt Amses

It’s a little unsettling to see your life retroactively deemed a criminal enterprise by the Jan. 20 stroke of a presidential Sharpie, redirected like an Alabama hurricane, from a point of some pride to an ignominious collection of “Forced illegal and immoral discrimination programs.” Although retired for the last decade, 35 years as a special educator taught me that diversity, equity and inclusion were not just part of the program, they were the program.
Amses: Crap detection redux

1 month ago | timesargus.com | Walt Amses

Five years ago I wrote about the necessity of implementing “crap detection” in evaluating the “kabuki theater masquerading as COVID-19 briefings dominated by the man masquerading as president,” noting how difficult it was to imagine screwing up the administration’s response any worse than they already had.
Amses: Reality TV isn’t reality

1 month ago | timesargus.com | Walt Amses

The most disturbing aspect (of many) during last week’s Oval Office meltdown was how poorly equipped the Trump administration is to go off script or — God forbid — deviate from the carefully orchestrated narrative without having the unprepared president react like a spoiled toddler whose bullying, tolerated for the last 50 years, is in his DNA.
Amses: Models of resilience

1 month ago | timesargus.com | Walt Amses

It’s barely 6 a.m. and there are seven chickadees sitting on the tiny perches of my largest bird feeder. I think they’re dead at first, frozen fast to the metal since it’s 10° below zero, and they’re just so tiny and seemingly fragile. It wouldn’t have surprised me at all if the frigid night had done its worst, congealing these vivacious little sprites into disturbing puffs of feathery taxidermy.
Empathy not a given in the United States’ Christian Right circles

1 month ago | vtcng.com | Walt Amses

Vice President JD Vance found himself on the horns of a dilemma last week when he momentarily couldn’t make up his mind in which direction to genuflect, toward the Vatican or the White House. After converting to Catholicism in 2019, the Veep explained in an interview with The American Conservative that he and the church were simpatico: “I saw a real overlap between what I’d like to see and what the Catholic Church would like to see.
Amses: The bad Samaritan

2 months ago | timesargus.com | Walt Amses

Vice President JD Vance found himself on the horns of a dilemma last week when he momentarily couldn’t make up his mind in which direction to genuflect — toward the Vatican or the White House. After converting to Catholicism in 2019, the veep explained in an interview with The American Conservative that he and the church were simpatico: “I saw a real overlap between what I’d like to see and what the Catholic Church would like to see.