Lakeville Journal Opinion/Viewpoint

This infrequent column always strives to take the long view. Here is a very long one: Governance by representative democracy is but a hiccup in the history of the world. From time immemorial, human societies have been ruled by autocracies that oppress the vast majority of people who are not in the tiny ruling class.

He and his wife visited Salisbury looking to buy a house. Could you have had a cooler experience than seeing him at the yogurt counter?

My dear likker lady who professes to love him said he always played parts which did not demean him. He would never play a thief, she said. I can’t think if she’s right.

Revenge against Alex Jones

100 years ago — October 1922

Miss Jennie Clark who was injured by falling in a ditch which was covered with leaves, near the residence of D.P. Fackler, has now sufficiently recovered to be able to get around the house, having been suffering with a badly injured knee for a number of weeks.

To everything there is a season, from beginnings to endings and everything in between.

Protect rights of all in Connecticut