Like any place, Jacksonville has its quirks. It has a few things here and there that you might not care to show visitors — certain blighted properties near my house and the depressing health warnings on almost every body of water, for example. It also has a fair number of beggars. I think I like the beggars the least. They materialize in the Winn Dixie parking lot […]
The suits are ruining the Republic
If any phenomenon could be said to have dominated the national news over the past few months, it’s probably the whole Occupy Wall Street thing. That, you might recall, springs from the accurate perception that the super-rich in America just keep getting richer despite the worst economic crisis in seven decades. That’s while the poor, and those formerly known as the middle class, keep getting poorer. The […]
Who’s the Nazi now?
As someone who used to write newspaper columns and now tries to write blog posts at least four times a month, I can understand the tremendous pressure to come up with topics. Even a lame-ass site like this one is a hungry beast. The more gruel I shovel at it, the more it wants. Sometimes you get desperate. Yesterday I came this close to writing something about […]