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So I’m in the checkout line the other day buying supplies (wine) for Impending Armageddon, otherwise known as Tuesday’s snowstorm. The guy in front of me commits the mortal sin of engaging the cashier...

Idle Thoughts, while waiting for the Beanpot, Carlos Rodon’s 20-win season and for the Giants to draft 12 offensive linemen: • Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, summons cartoonist Scott Adams for ...

Groton — It is the region’s most wonderful night, a confluence of accomplishment, inspiration, fellowship and celebration. There is grandeur, the Mystic Marriott’s ballroom. There is gentility, everyo...

East Hartford — Somewhere in sportswriter’s school you learn this: Don’t criticize unless you offer a solution. Example: It would be fraudulent to whine about why UConn and its national basketball bra...

Among our most blossoming blocks of baloney now are words from Ecclesiastes 3:1: “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” To everything there is a season? Try open...

Idle Thoughts, while waiting for beach weather, Danny Dimes’ inevitable MVP award and for somebody in the New York media to ask Aaron Boone a real question: • Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, beg...

Idle Thoughts, while waiting for the NHL playoffs, more patience in the face of Road Construction Season and for Carlos Rodon to throw a pitch: • Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, reminds himself ...

There is the notion, perhaps more useful now in ideology than practicality, that our schools remain the last bastions of purity, fundamentally immune from the stigma of corporate sponsorship. Imagine ...

Most of us are too busy now to dissect the moment when we’re involved in it. Too many headaches, challenges and details to ponder. But anyone who chooses to practice self-awareness faces an enduring, ...

Imagine this outlandishly utopian sentiment: a U.S. Olympian jailed in a Russian penal colony finally returns to American soil … and for one shining moment there is the mere hint of unity across the p...