Jon Gruden has resigned as the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders in the National Football League. The resignation took place after the discovery that Gruden sent many racist and sexist emails to another NFL executive that polite society could not stomach his existence. 

Every year about this time, there is an art show at a former tavern in my little town of East Montpelier.

It’s actually not my town. It’s just over the line into the next town, which is called Calais. That’s a detail that we sometimes bother with. But it’s fun to claim some ownership of the most wonderful art show of the year.

I boarded the AMTRAK Vermonter in Montpelier, the state capitol, at 10:25 am the other day. Eight hours later, I disembarked, exhausted and embarrassed to live in a country that allows its public transportation to be the laughing stock of the world. And to think we put up with it. 

I hope Andrew Cuomo does not resign. I hope he fights it out, clinging to his job. I hope he faces his accusers, fights for an acquittal in the New York Assembly, and seeks somehow to redeem himself in the public eye.