Kent Ward
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Interview produces no smoking gun
A little blue-haired 83-year old lady motorist is stopped by a state trooper for speeding. The trooper asks her why she's in such a hurry. more
By Kent Ward | 3/13/10 | 188 views
A trifecta of signs of springtime
Most anyone acquainted with the diabolical handiwork of the weather gods of New England knows that to anticipate an early spring is to practically guarantee that the mother of all snowstorms will … more
By Kent Ward | 3/6/10 | 276 views
Summing up the D.C. summit
Thursday's bipartisan summit on health care in Washington may not have been as volatile as a summit involving Latin American and Caribbean countries earlier this week in Mexico, where the president … more
By Kent Ward | 2/27/10 | 815 views
Poor health and language afflictions
A man who is probably not a Rhodes scholar sticks up a bank in Alaska after first giving the teller his name, account number and ID with photo. more
By Kent Ward | 2/20/10 | 260 views
We always remember the zingers
In her televised address to the Tea Party’s national convention at Nashville last weekend, 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin expertly zinged the Obama administration, only to subsequently commit a gaffe that neutralized the impact of her remark. more
By Kent Ward | 2/13/10 | 720 views
Entertainment in finding grammatical errors
In the frigid doldrums of winter, when the entertainment value of listening to the basement furnace kick in and watching the heating budget go up in smoke gets old, I fill the void by jotting down strange things I have heard on radio or television and clipping weird grammatical constructions from the morning newspaper. more
By Kent Ward | 2/6/10 | 388 views
Prime-time ‘diss’ for the justices
An interesting take on the traditional State of the Union message delivered each January by the president to Congress and a national television audience came from Peter Robinson, a speechwriter for … more
By Kent Ward | 1/30/10 | 483 views
Next comes a mob with pitchforks
To no one’s surprise, political pundits were all over the board in attempting to explain Republican Scott Brown’s spectacular game-changing victory in Tuesday’s special Massachusetts election … more
By Kent Ward | 1/23/10 | 748 views
It’s beg your pardon time as politicos trip over lips
Two stories on the same page of the Tuesday morning newspaper suggested a couple of things to readers: 1) The double standard in politics remains alive and well; and 2) Politicians operating with no adult supervision can sure say some dumb things. more
By Kent Ward | 1/16/10 | 775 views
Saluting seasoned Mainers
Five remarkable can-do seasoned citizens of Maine who rate a New Year’s toast for reminding us that age is but a state of mind: Peg Cousins, 84, East Millinocket. A Chinese proverb suggests that … more
By Kent Ward | 1/9/10 | 453 views
Disclaimers to make you think twice
On Tuesday, while confined to what amounted to house arrest because of the mother of all whiteouts raging outside my snow-blasted window here on the edge of the tundra, I made the mistake of watching daytime television to keep from going stir crazy. more
By Kent Ward | 1/2/10 | 582 views
A decade of speed bumps to savor
Ten years ago, the worrywarts among us were consumed with fear that at the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, 1999, the world’s computers might be wiped out in the mother of all computer crashes. more
By Kent Ward | 12/26/09 | 526 views
Authorship of classic still debated
Retired Syracuse University geology professor Gary Boone of Presque Isle reports that he was poking through a weekly newspaper recently “when what to my wondering eyes did appear, but the printing … more
By Kent Ward | 12/19/09 | 633 views
Application to become a Mainer
A report in the Thursday morning newspaper concerning Wednesday’s snowstorm stated that a Bangor hardware store had experienced a run on snow shovels at about the time the first snowflakes began to … more
By Kent Ward | 12/12/09 | 627 views
A feel-good story from the archives
In the innocent newspapering days of yore, it was refreshing when an amusing feel-good story like the saga of Erwin Kreuz — a West German brewery worker who mistook Bangor for San Francisco some 32 years ago — came along to entertain the masses. more
By Kent Ward | 12/5/09 | 745 views
Awaiting the mother of all shakedowns
Syndicated columnist George Will may have struck a familiar chord with veteran gift givers and recipients when he wrote in Thursday’s newspaper about shoppers spending sums they can’t afford on unwanted Christmas gifts for unappreciative people. more
By Kent Ward | 11/28/09 | 853 views
Thankful for ‘chain of silence’
High on any list of things for which to be thankful as the Thanksgiving holiday looms has to be the run of picture-perfect Indian summerlike weather we have enjoyed for the greater part of November. more
By Kent Ward | 11/21/09 | 603 views
Reading news with ‘maturity’
I know this letter will come to you as surprise one but I want you to read this with maturity,” the Nigerian scam e-mail message began. more
By Kent Ward | 11/14/09 | 724 views
Thoughts for an Election Day post-mortem
It was weird the way the vote in a Bangor Daily News daily poll question on current events mirrored, in percentages, the performance of voters on Question 1 in this week’s election. On Tuesday, … more
By Kent Ward | 11/7/09 | 1056 views
Surviving Series and Election Day
This weekend, when the responsible citizen should, I suppose, be thinking about a personal plan of attack to be executed in the voting booth on Election Day next Tuesday, my mind wanders instead to … more
By Kent Ward | 10/31/09 | 730 views
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