How much could $888,000 buy for people in need?
Let’s see: a lot of fruits and vegetables for people whose only grocery is the convenience store, more doctors’ visits for children who will get sicker without such care, or unemployment insurance for more people who will get thrown out of their homes without it.
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Questions your six-year-old asks you:
Why does a zebra have stripes?
Can I have more macaroni and cheese?
Can you help me with my homework?
Why do I have to go to bed now?
Why did that man in the movie theatre hurt all those people?
Questions your teenager asks you:
Why do I have to do the dishes?
Are you going to buy me a car?
What? Me smoke weed?...
It must be in the air.
After a woman in his audience shouts that his rape joke isn’t funny, comedian Daniel Tosh says that it would be funny if five men rape her right now, on the spot.
Tosh later apologizes but says he has been misquoted.
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Vagina. Vagina. Vagina.
Uterus. Uterus. Uterus.
There. I’ve said those dirty words, and boy, did it feel good. It’s curious what a little free speech will do. It clears the mind.
So here’s the...
Rome burns.
But the greatest issue before us is whether Charlie is gay.
The former governor, then single, once elegantly deflected this rumor that refuses to die by saying he was married to Florida. A woman who had no truck for his views once popped the question at a big Tampa political luncheon;...
Could the facts really be heeded for once?
Or will they end up in the same bin as global warming, where all unpleasant facts go?
The Tampa Bay Times just published a sweeping investigation of the crazy results of the application of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law.
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If it were possible, Rick Scott would be tearing his hair out right about now.
The steam must certainly be coming out of his ears. He’s likely to be talking to himself. Let’s listen in:
How dare even the Republicans among the state’s election supervisors abandon me and refuse to...
When it comes to talking about the troops who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, hero is the most overused word.
It’s not that the word, when used to describe those who fight for us, is wrong. Lord, no.
Hailing them as heroes is also a form of apology for the abuse soldiers suffered when they came...
Students always teach the teacher. That’s what I was told when, in the fall of 2010, I started teaching freshman composition at the University of South Florida in Tampa. I was a graduate assistant, working towards a Master of Fine Arts in fiction writing. What an education I got during the four semesters I taught—and my own studies had nothing to do with it.
My composition students, most of them 18-year-...
You can tell a lot about a man by the company he keeps.
And you can tell a lot about a town by what the people who control it think is acceptable conduct.
Come the case of Gov. Rick Scott, who has needed more on-the-job training than a bear in a ballet troupe.
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