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?
Blasphemy at the pulpit
(Had a request from a reader of my book, Sideways in Sarasota, who wanted to know why this column, originally published in March 08, wasn’t on my online column site — so for that reader — here you go and thanks for asking. I don’t have the “send a friend” link you requested, but you […]
Hope’s got my vote
I’m planning to vote for Obama – in part because he’s black. I want a black person to be president of this country. But why?
No health insurance? Shut up and eat some cake!
While the infamous “let them eat cake” line may never have been uttered by Marie Antoinette, the sentiment is real – and enduring — enough: Why should the well-off worry about the peasants not having enough bread to eat when there’s plenty of cake to go around the palace halls? The story of Antoinette’s casual […]
Spooksville, USA
This column ran in print in May 2007, but I’ve brought it back from the dead in honor of Halloween and spooks everywhere! Last Sunday morning, after watching Tim Russert hold former CIA Director George Tenet’s feet to the fire on Meet the Press, all I could say was …”Somebody get me a double vodka, […]
Got guts?
Barack Obama appears to be willing to speak truthfully, to live transparently to a certain degree, and that takes guts. And I like that. I like the fact that Obama smoked dope, admits it, and doesn’t do it now. That tells me that he’s pretty much like an awful lot of other people in the […]
The difference between disloyalty and dissent
Friday, September 27, 2006. High Tea with Sandy and Vern Buchanan. At the Ritz. With extra-special guest, Laura Bush. “Responsible candidates understand that the men and women of our military are risking their lives for us overseas, and that we must conduct our debate here at home in a way that does not jeopardize our […]
The right side of the mud trail
This is a column I don’t particularly want to write. I’ve been planning to vote for Christine Jennings, and I undoubtedly still will, but, I’ve got a problem with the recent path she’s asking Democrats to follow. I’m more than willing to follow a candidate along a rocky or rough and tumble campaign trail. But […]
Sheepish in Sarasota
Last week I wrote a column about Katie Couric. The week before that I wrote a column about Sarasota voters and the September 5th elections. I wrote about the hope I held for the possibility that Couric would choose to transcend mediocrity. I wrote about the hope I had that Sarasotans would rise above what […]
Sarasota’s All-America City Quest
This column appeared in the Pelican Press newspaper, June 29, 2006. Sarasota County was recently designated an “All-America County.” County Commission Chairman David Mills, quoted on the County’s website, predicted this recognition would have “long-lasting effect on the Sarasota community.” And County Administrator Jim Ley, quoted in a June 8 Sarasota Herald-Tribune article by Doug […]