When it came out that Lee Harvey Oswald killed the President of the United States, in 1963, with an Italian … More
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Ron Cunningham is a sometime journalist who used to string words together at the Gainesville Sun before I retired to free lance and blog. If I still had a business card it would read: Ron Cunningham: Trained Observer Of The Human Condition. Because like The Donald, you know, ego.
Density is our destiny
(This was originally published in The Sun in the spring of 2015, but it seems especially relevant today given the … More
Only kidding Gainesville
A lot of folks like to think of Gainesville as being a progressive university community. But, really, we’re a typical … More
Child of the Anthropocene
I am a child of the Anthropocene. In my lifetime I have leaped, not just from one century to the … More
The art of climate change
Ange can’t sleep. She tosses and turns and worries. About her daughter Lily’s grim future. About the dead chicks they … More
Cross and double cross
Impressive things I saw on my trip to Russia in the summer of 2017. The Kremlin. The Hermitage Young couples … More
Graveyard of ‘heroes’
(Wrote this in the summer of 2017 for the Gainesville Sun. Still relevant today.) Stalin’s got a busted nose. Shattered … More
Gainesville’s strong compact
I love this town. I know, I’ve been saying that for years. But I’ve never been more enamored of Gainesville … More
Out out damned blot!
Like Jimmy Stewart’s father in “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington” I always fancied myself a fighter of lost causes. Which … More
The spinx and the water
ST. PETERSBURG: This is a city of grand palaces and colorful onion-domed Russian Orthodox churches, of giant mosques and fortresses … More
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