There’s no vaccine for what ails the NHL

 So much right. And so much wrong. In the past week, the National Hockey League has shown us both its faces. The infectious joy of young Cole Caufield after scoring not once but twice in overtime. The contorted visage of Tom Wilson as he grabs Artemi Panarin by the hair and slams him to the …

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Time for Geoff Molson to speak out

Artemi Panarin is the most courageous player in the National Hockey League, bar none.             Panarin has stood up to Vladimir Putin in support of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who was poisoned by an undercover hit squad working for Russia’s FSB spy agency. If you don’t think that takes courage, you don’t know the meaning …

Bilbo bags one

Until recently, the biggest excitement in the history of Mosinee, Wisconsin (pop. 3,988 in the 2010 census) came on May Day, 1950, when local residents acting as communist invaders seized control of the town. These were the darkest days of the Cold War, when the unhinged fanatic Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin was whipping up …