Countryconspirators, So here we are, hours from 2012.  Will it bring fiscal redemption, a stock market surge, the decompression of soverei...

Countrycelebrants, Ho ho ho.  Tis the day before Christmas, and all through the house my children and grandchildren and all the lizards a...

Countrycustomers, Again, a film rumbling through the theaters triggers a blog.  Like J. Edgar , My Week with Marilyn alights on an iconic...

Countrycherubs, Again, events have overtaken me.  My friend the astute Merle Allshouse has alerted me to the piece in the December 6 Huffi...

Countrycelebrants, Salutations.  The Thanksgiving engorgement is winding down, a second  unseasonal blanketing of snow hit New Hampshire (...

Countrycruisers, Yes, again, a round with the J. Edgar movie.  I suppose I'm gnawing away on this bone because of a longstanding convi...

Countryvassals, OK, you can exhale, here it is.  My reading on the heavily ballyhooed J. Edgar film out of the Clint Eastwood monolith.  S...

Dear Countryclients, The drums are beating, closer every day, and within a week or so the Clint Eastwood saga, J. Edgar , starring Leonard...

Countrycritters, Back from our semiannual resettlement frenzy.  My ruminations this week keep returning to the bad behavior of banks, ever...

Countryparsons, The autumn deepens.  The official unemployment levels refuse to budge, while effective unemployment -- people who have giv...

Countryfolk, First, sorry to have missed a week.  A quick trip to commiserate with the survivors of my high school class followed -- immed...

Countrymice, Today's subject is delicate.  We will be dealing here with friends, intimate history, how reality is lighted, or obscured...

Countrymice, A national calamity is never an easy subject, supercharged as it invariably is with loss, frustration, and the haunting awar...

Countryvarmints, E-mails have poured in after last week's blog, when I attempted to lift the doormat before all the facts that induced...

Countrypeople, This week I hope to provide a few sidelights on what exactly triggers our decisions to make war and make peace and how we d...

Countryfolk, Salutations.  As perhaps a few of my readers may remember, it has been my intention with this blog to chew away on subjects r...

Countrypersons, First, and emphatically:  I'm no economist.  I've looked at the ideas of a good many economists over the years, fr...

Countryfollowers, Having neglected this blog to a certain extent while attacking the last chapters of the novel that has been throttling m...

Countrypeople, Again, another mile or so on the slow slog toward rationality.  I have just finished my electrifying new novel, so I am fre...

Countrypatriots, It had been my intention to fire one of these things into the blogosphere no more often than every week or ten days, tops...

Countryfolk, Back at it.  I am in what might very well turn out to be the last week of drafting a new novel, and so am a bit preoccupied w...

Countrymen And Countrywomen.   And Countrydogs and Manatees and Cockatoos and anybody else interested.  I always use Countrymen as a gener...

Countrymen. President Obama's announcement last week that we would be drawing down perhaps 10,000 of our regular military in Afghanist...

Countrymen, I had intended to let this blogger format settle in a little bit before tiptoeing into the minefield of the JFK assassination....

Countrymen, First, sorry that almost two weeks has elapsed since I provided fresh clues as to what has been happening to our country benea...