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Notes from Southern Berkshire Ambulance: December 2025

2025 marks my 50th year as a volunteer with Southern Berkshire Ambulance. My good friend, Ken Schumacher, is celebrating his 49th. Together, we've seen a lot of change. But one thing hasn't: We are there when you need us—24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Notes from the End Times: Foreign affairs

The departure of the First Family.

SHEELA CLARY: Trump remakes Academy Awards

Inspired by the president’s comments, eight foreign embassies have announced they will each be sponsoring a remake of a classic American movie.

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

It's hard to look away from a train wreck. It's impossible to look away from successive wrecks.

POEM: The Helsinki Sequel

the main difference is one was entertaining fiction, the other factual and deeply creepy

The Emperor’s New Clothes — An adaptation

Instead of saying, as one might, about any other ruler, "The King's in council," here they always said. "The President is tweeting in his dressing room.”

Grand opening

The latest chain in the Trump empire.

A NOVEL: Over the Edge, Chapter 2

Peter had known this Sergey for many years. They met first in Berlin, became reacquainted in Managua, ran into each other in Zurich and then under orders from Putin, Sergey had him escorted from his apartment under guard to the Moscow airport.

Smoke Signals from the Swamp: The fall of Flynn

General Flynn is inextricably woven into the story of Donald Trump and Russia. And nothing reveals the important role he has played more clearly than the efforts President Trump made to convince FBI Director James Comey not to dig too deeply into what Flynn might have done.

A bad hair day for N.Y. Rep. John Faso

March 24 may be the date that made him a one-term Congressman. With his abrupt decision to support the American Health Care Act, the freshman Republican congressman from Kinderhook engaged in a stunning series of betrayals.
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