Buddies and pals
Am I the only one who thinks it’s odd that McCain says that he and his campaign never met or talked with Joe (so-called) the Plumber (so-called), but yet in his debate with Obama McCain referred to Joe as “my buddy”? I guess his “buddy” was someone he had never met and only seen on […]
For Sarasota women (sorry, guys!)
Awake at the wheel
For much of my life, if doctors had analyzed my brain waves, I’m pretty sure they would have determined I was asleep. My body may have been going through the motions of being awake, but for an embarrassingly long number of years, my brain was slumbering. I snoozed my way through jobs, vacations, opportunities, even […]
MC to be panelist in Media Forum
If you’ve got $25 bucks to cough up, that’ll get you dinner and a Media Forum featuring a panel that includes MC! Well, there are other far-more accomplished media folks on the panel (I must be their token “nobody” — but it is nice to see them including a non-mainstream writer!) including the esteemed Waldo […]
Tolerating Discrimination
In last Thursday night’s Vice Presidential debate, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin clarified their joint opposition to gay marriage. Biden said it’s “only fair”to support the civil rights of same-sex couples, and Palen said she’s “tolerant” of gay couples; but neither one of them wants to see same-sex couples getting married in any traditional sense. […]
My paradox with Palin
Sarah Palin’s not exactly the kind of woman I see myself hangin’ with. Oh, I’m not deaf, dumb, and blind to the appeal Palin has for some people; I get that she’s attractive, accomplished, and, up until recently, quite ballsy. It’s just that I can’t relate to a woman who seems to have so little […]
Got guts?
Basically, I think the world boils down to two kinds of people: the kind who have guts and the kind who don’t. I’m talking the visceral down and dirty kind of guts it takes to look down the barrel of life and choose to say what you mean and live what you say. It’s a […]
MC hits the Sarasota Herald-Trib!
Yowza, the local Sarasota Herald Tribune picked up an opinion piece I wrote and they’re running it in today’s paper — on newstands now! You can read it in print (page A11) or view it online. And, if you want to let the editors know you loved … or hated the piece, you can either […]
Could a Sarasota mayor catapult to VEEP nominee?
Hey everyone, I’ve got a reporting piece (not opinion!) in this week’s Creative Loafing newspaper. This is the first time a local Sarasota newspaper has run my writing since I left the Pelican Press, so I’m psyched! If you’re local to Sarasota, you can pick up a copy of CL on newstands today. Or, you […]
McCain Blinks
John McCain wants to suspend his campaign and delay his first debate with Barack Obama. Why? He says it’s because he wants to run along to Washington and solve the problem he apparently thinks the rest of the government can’t do without his extraordinarily astute, 24/7, economic insight. Um, this is the same guy who […]