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How strange. On April 18, 1955, he was alive. He had mass. He lay in a bed, frantically plotting equations with pencil and paper in neat handwriting, attempting to piece together a unified theory to explain the connections between all forms of matter in the universe. And then he was dead, killed by an aneurysm that had festered for years.
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Scott Brinton
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3/11/10
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The New York Times nailed Gov. David Paterson last week in an alleged abuse-of-power case, so much so that he was forced to drop out of the 2010 gubernatorial race. Yet there was Paterson, in typical fashion, denying culpability.
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Scott Brinton
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3/10/10
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In 2008, then presidential candidate Barack Obama supported “clean coal” technology as a means of powering America, much to the chagrin of many environmentalists. Shocked, shocked, they were.
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Scott Brinton
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2/25/10
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Before President Obama meets with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders at Blair House Feb. 25 to hammer out a bipartisan health reform agreement — or at least to argue over one — I would suggest that he first hold a news conference to reframe the health care debate.
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Scott Brinton
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2/18/10
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President Obama pulled a big no-no last week. He insulted an all-American institution, the fine city of Las Vegas, daring to suggest that people should save their money rather than “blow a bunch of cash” on gambling in Sin City if they want to help fund their children’s college education.
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Scott Brinton
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2/11/10
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Art Rosenthal, executive director of the Confide Inc. drug treatment center in Rockville Centre, described childhood these days as a dark tunnel. What a depressing metaphor, I thought, but I couldn’t argue with its accuracy.
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Scott Brinton
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2/4/10
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I'm hoping — no, make that praying — that the newest senator from Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown, will now do what he said he would during last week’s special election — that he will, in fact, be an independent voice for the people of Massachusetts.
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Scott Brinton
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1/29/10
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I have three comments on last week’s earthquake in Haiti. One, I hope you’ll consider giving to a Haitian relief fund. Ten dollars, $50, $1 million, give what you can.
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Scott Brinton
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1/21/10
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I've covered government at all levels for nearly 17 years, and never during that time have I heard “socialist” and “communist” pop up more in our national political conversation than I have in the past 12 months.
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Scott Brinton
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1/14/10
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My colleagues Randi Kreiss and Alfonse D’Amato each published year-end lists two weeks ago, with Randi offering a holiday shopping list and Alfonse, a list of all the political issues he’d like resolved. I thought, how’d I miss the memo? Where was my year-end list? I must have been too busy looking back on the decade that was.
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Scott Brinton
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1/7/10
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