On Pi Day, Romney closes in on Math Presidency
It is Pi Day, and by coincidence the 1 1/3 centeniary of Albert Einstein's birth. Pie, of course, defines the relationship between lines and circles. Einstein, among many other things, defined the...
View ArticleArresting George Zimmerman not enough
The macro issues related to the Feb. 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin, at this point, overshadow the simple question of why he is free and where he might be. The profile of Zimmerman ins today's Orlando...
View ArticleBreaking (w/link): FL Gov, AG assigns Jacksonville-area prosecutor to Martin...
Rick Scott has appointed the woman who put a 12-year-old on trial for murder in 2011 to take over the investigation and possible prosecutions in the Trayvon Martin case. Here's the...
View ArticleSantorum was and is running for 2016
These are three things I think have, as Lew Archer would say, a bifurcating root.Several times in talking about running as an underdog speaking out on bedrock conservative issues, Rick Santorum drew...
View ArticleWhat is wrong with FL Dem Party?
I don't know the answer to this, or really have much of a clue. I've lived here from 1990-97, and then from 2005 to date. Have had writing clients here during the entire interim. No, I don't write...
View ArticleAttn. GOP: Obama owns you, part two
The following is a sequel to this diary:http://www.dailykos.com/...A valet had left with the luggage. A Secret Service Detail was already in the hotel corridor with the two girls. Only the couple...
View ArticleMA: SE; what she should have said
First. Elizabeeth Warren is smarter than me and needed no help in last night's debate. Before I come off as a patronizing white guy, I don't think her answer on the bipartisaney-compromisey Republicans...
View ArticleVice presidential debates kind of matter
One thing you hear that might be in the context of horseshoes is that the vice presidential debates don't matter. They do. They give us a chance to look at the one staff choice the noinee has made, and...
View ArticleWhat I wrote about Sandy Hook
I posted this on FB, and am putting here as a diary because this is my community as well. Sorry if it is a waste of band width. It's about 1,500 words:I've held back saying anything about Sandy Hook...
View ArticleDear My GOP Rep: Switch Sides
After the orange thingy is my email to my congressman, Dennis Ross of FL-15. He has an opponent this time, and near as I can tell has favored voting for a clean CR as of shortly before the shutdown. He...
View ArticleRobert Strauss was not Howard Dean
I didn't even open the thing. The headline at Wapo stated that Robert Strauss, who died at age 95 according now to at least two news outlets, somehow helped revive the Democratic Party. I am sure there...
View ArticleMinus spending limits, we need to slut-shame the Koch suckers
For 20 years, I've believd this. I even think I've written it in at least a comment or two here. If this is indeed a Miltonic marketplace of ideas, and market forces will ensure a lively political...
View ArticleAgainst a shotgun approach for boycotting Koch products
Earlier this week, someone posted a story that included a very useful link, below:http://kstreet607.com/...It purports =- and I don't challenge its thoroughness, I just don't have the expertise to know...
View ArticleAP on Rebecca Sedgwick, cyberbullying and by inference the sheriff
Rebecca Sedgwick, the Lakeland FL girl who transferred from Crystal Lake Middle School to the Lawton Chiles Academy because of her family did not believe the earlier school was adequately addressing...
View ArticleFL-10 The Devil who's Dan Webster
Mike McKenna is doing a great job campaigning door to door as the Dem nominee in this court-declared unconstitutional congressional district. I can understand that the DCCC is concentrating its efforts...
View ArticleAs dust clears, the sources of my bitterness
If this is simply a venting diary, so be it. I put it off for several days and perhaps ought to permanently, but I do want to share the reasoning for the targets of my post-election angst, even if the...
View ArticleSending the GOP the way of the Federalists
What doomed the Federalist Party was an effort among its members to attmpt to negotiate behind James Madison's with the British over the War of 1812. After this, the party never had ballot access in...
View ArticleSome thoughts on the CottonMouth Scandal
I've had other things to worry about these last few days, and maybe my thinking is off because of that. Here, hough are some thouhts I have on what the Democratic Party on my behalf has to do about Tom...
View ArticleAny interest in an I-4 Meetup?
I'm not committing yet to setting it up, but if I did: Who and how many would be interested in having a meet-up, say late on a Saturday morning, at some location off exit 32 or 33 on Interstate-4 in...
View ArticleWoody Guthrie at 100 plus 3
Below the squiggle is a piece I did for Alternate Root magazine in 2012 on the Woody Guthrie Centenary July 14, 2012. My own title for it was "The Great American Songbook's Historical Bum," but the...
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