While we’re on the subject of football stadiums, let me take a walk down memory lane. My daughter Jenny attended…
Savor the Xanadu spectacle, Gators
These are not the best of times for the University of Florida. Politicians have, deliberately and methodically, neutered academic freedoms,…
‘The highest reach of civilization’…again
In my younger years, even as a young Watergate-era newspaper guy, I was never a fan of Upton Sinclair. Oh,…
Entrepreneurial Chaos Theory
Let me say this about that. To all of you pearl clutchers (I’m looking at you, Harvey) who are predicting…
I got dem old Centennial, bicentennial & semiquincentennial blues again Mama
The Centennial I didn’t save my Confederate money because it never occurred to me that the South Would Rise Again.…
Alachua County’s autoAmerican Speedway
It was just another close call in autoAmerica. It came and went so quickly there wasn’t even time for my…
Gators! You’re doing this all wrong
It occurs to me that we – and by we I mean the University of Florida’s Board of Trustees –…
The Georgian towers of London
The Tower of London bores me. Hell, it’s not even much of a tower. Just a low stone enclosure built…
Hey Banksy! Where’s the red tie?
A low-loader, some traffic cones and “the sort of dudes who can set up a Metallica concert in 24 hours”…
What would Plato think?
I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts: Plato Random thoughts after three days in the birthplace of democracy…
