I dunno. Perhaps I was a tad too critical – a bit too judgmental – in my previous blog, The…
The great ham sandwich caper
There’s an old saying that a good prosecutor can persuade a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. So what…
Oh Canada!
Now that Canada has unleashed a vicious and totally undeserved trade war on its defenseless neighbors to the South, I…
Corporate U gives Krishna the boot
Well that certainly turned out to be a convenient accident for GNV’s Corporate U. When a UF student was hit…
Wait! What just happened?
Never underestimate the power of a pink bullhorn. Ha! For months the National Nattering Nabobs have been huffing and puffing…
The young man who sat with my mother
The call came in about 3:30 in the morning. The young man rang to inform me that my mother had…
The impossible road trip dream
The logic is simple, if perhaps a trifle simple-minded. If Alachua County commissioners didn’t waste our tax dollars on homeless…
Slave to the three rings
True confession. Having seen Disney’s “Pinocchio” countless times – first as a kid and later as a father – I…
My new life as a reluctant gym rat
If you choose an elliptical or treadmill on the far left side of Planet Fitness, you will find yourself staring…
Of gamblers, sharpies and thugs in blue serge
Recently I reread, after many, many decades, ‘Advise and Consent.’ Alan Drury’s 1959 novel recounts the treachery, deceit and betrayal…
