We’ve attracted attention from the St. Pete fish wrapper, particularly its food critic, Laura Reiley, who posted this at her blog today in response to a smartass jab from us yesterday (read down in the comments section, until you come to the one from that Dave H jerk).  
At the risk of inflaming our disagreement with […] Continue Reading…

(Note to readers: this post was edited and revised on Jan 7, 2008)

  If you haven’t seen the St. Pete fish wrapper’s Weekend section, specifically the feature entitled “100 things that make you go mmmmm,” take a peek.
 
Though we admire food critic Laura Reiley for her magnanmity in allowing that “… since I’ve been the Times food critic for less […] Continue Reading…

We heard it again today on right-wing blowhard radio. Twice. From Rush Limbaugh and some Glenn Beck wannabe who lectured America about how it depends on oil for prosperity and, therefore, needs a president who will blow off global-warming nuts and drill for oil in every remaining wilderness area and unspoiled coastal zone.
 Somehow they never seem to get around […] Continue Reading…

John Chestnut, Sr. Park
New Year’s Day 2008

Here we go again with the does-she-or-doesn’t-she debate over global warming to which we respond: Who gives a damn as long as she makes money?

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is now officially on record as a skeptic of global warming. Aside from scoring points with certain well-financed special interests, we aren’t sure why he and other Florida polticians think […] Continue Reading…