In South Strafford, VT., where I used to live, there is a lovely recreation area. Tennis courts, basketball hoops, soccer field - all right next to a tiny gymnasium and a stream. It is perfect. With the local school down the street and the local store at the other end of town, you are looking at a healthy community.

I know you are nervous. You see it slipping away. That Reagan revolution you rode for 40 years is almost gone. Your kids and mine don’t even know it happened. My kids just look at your tax cuts and efforts to strangle government as strange. With the exception of the College Republican clubs on campus, most young voters feel the same way.

"This is threatening not just a way of doing business. It's threatening their livelihoods. It's threatening their jobs. And every time that happens, whether it's a government or a business or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins, their hands on the switch, they go batshit crazy." 

Boston Red Sox Owner John Henry in the movie "Moneyball."

There is a large spool of black cable waiting to be strung up on utility poles a short distance from my place. For the last few weeks, utility trucks have been up and down the road. It seems that faster, more reliable Internet is on its way to us, five miles from the state capitol.