My campaign promise: I won’t date dumb
In my gazillion years on the dating frontlines, I’ve dated on both sides of the political fence and never have given it a whole lot of thought. But now the stakes are too high. So high, in fact, that I’ve decided I must establish a thorough vetting process — a sophisticated questionnaire that will reveal […]
McPain’s Macho-esque Mistake
John McPain is running scared. But when you run scared, you always get lost, and John’s looking a little like a befuddled senior who got lost on the way home, wandering around the neighborhood unsure on which door he should knock to find his family. Apparently, he thinks he found his VP family in Palin. […]
America rocked the house
In addressing America tonight via the Democratic Convention, Barack Obama said this election isn’t about him. “It’s about you,” he said. About the American people. And he’s right. Barack Obama, as inspiring, as gifted, as talented and intelligent as he is — he didn’t put himself at this center of this momentous occasion, at this […]
Classless at the Convention
The Clintons are rocking the house. Biden is sexy and strong. On the whole a classy affair, n’est-ce pas? Except for one thing:
I’m blaming Bill (published in the Tampa Tribune 8/26)
In the over-hyped week before Obama announced his VP choice, I shocked myself by realizing I was harboring a secret hope that he’d choose Hillary Clinton. Why this sudden convoluted craving for a Clinton? I didn’t vote for her in the primaries; Obama’s been my choice all along. So, why this rush of hope for […]
Actions make a real American (as published in the Tampa Tribune)
Does anyone know anymore just what makes an American … an American? Americans used to be everyday action heroes – a nation, once, of people who worked hard, saved for luxuries, ate meals together, and air-dried their laundry.
A prayer for the living
As published in the Tampa Tribune May 26, 2008. It’s Memorial Day, and I don’t have anyone to remember. No one close to me has died in the service of our country. I don’t even personally know anyone who is currently being paid to protect, fight, and possibly die for his or her country. But […]
Funny money business
In the March issue of Sarasota Magazine, a local business leader spoke about a new campaign to improve the public perception of the business community in Sarasota. When asked how a campaign like that would help, he replied, “People didn’t get to Sarasota by working on an assembly line. They’re entrepreneurs. They’re educated, risk takers, […]
Clinton country
(This was the follow-up column to Blasphemy at the pulpit — ran in April 08.) After finally digging myself out from under the deluge of reader mail sent in response to the Blasphemy at the Pulpit column (where I questioned the wisdom of Hillary bringing her husband back into the White House) … I’m here […]
Was Wright so wrong?
Was Wright so wrong? Let’s all just take a moment and untwist our knickers. Despite The Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s dramatic style of rhetoric … despite his poor choice of words, is what he said really so wrong?