Just when you thought your children were spending too much time on frivolous pursuits, such as watching television, 13-year old George Hamilton of Amherst comes along and saves his mother's life using a lesson he learned on an episode of NBC's sitcom, "The Office."

After close to eight years watching our former governor try to buy the nation's highest political office, and these many months of spectacle as he and his opponents fight for the Republican presidential nomination, I thought I had become pretty much inured to hypocrisy, big lies and Orwellian double speak.

Cuts to senior meals will hurt

To the Bulletin:

Governor Patrick's recent budget proposal includes an item that would severely cut funding for elder nutrition. I have deep concerns over the proposed $1.5 million cut to that program.