As I sit here in frustration over another maddening Jaguars loss, I look forward to the positives in my football life. My alma mater is 4-0 and next week the Alabama Crimson Tide come to Ben Hill Griffin Stadium and I’ll be there. The stakes always seem high when these two vanguard programs of the [...]
Since the time of Ronald Reagan the modern Republican party has slowly reduced their entire political philosophy to a simple creed, lower taxes. Reagan’s successor staked his entire political legacy on his promise to never raise taxes, and when he acted like an adult to address the ever growing deficit problem he was promptly treated [...]
As most people who know me personally could tell you, I know how to flap my yapper with the best of them. I started this site four years ago as a way to keep from writing angry screeds to the local paper’s editorial board and to save my friends the added bother of listening to [...]
Yesterday marked the tenth anniversary of the horrific attacks of September 11th 2001, and should have been a quiet day of reflection and prayer. Occurring as it did on a Sunday meant that the day would share a place with God and football, but politics should never have shared the stage with those three. The [...]
It’s really telling to me seeing the current conservative uproar over Jimmy Hoffa Jr.’s “take them out” reference to Republicans. If there is something that conservatives love more than Reagan and guns, it’s playing the victim. This is especially surprising to me because these same conservatives were the ones doggedly defending Sarah Palin’s gun-sites over [...]
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