November 5, 1999
Moved here November 5, 1999, 22 years ago. Fell in love with the place as tourists in August 1992. It was about a month after we moved in that the late David Brian Wallace shared with me his...
View ArticleDaylight Savings Time
When I was eight years old, I asked my mom to stay up late one Saturday to watch a tv program. She said no, but then said, "You should have argued that it's the night we set our clocks back one hour to...
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While Florida Fiddles, North Carolina Installs Monument to African-American...
Three cheers for North Carolina, for having the perspicacity to install a U.S. Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.) Monument. Are our University of Florida and City of St. Augustine unjust stewards of our...
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Opinion: The ugly origins of qualified immunity (Radley Balko, WaPo)
"A right without a remedy is simply a suggestion," as Bill Clinton said in 2000 to the annual American trial lawyers convention in Chicago. Honest police officers don't need qualified immunity and will...
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Opinion: The Supreme Court has abdicated its duty to the Bill of Rights...
Here's another helpful Washington Post column that helps understand how the United States Supreme Court and other federal courts are erasing our constitutional rights by refusing to act against the...
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WHY ARE ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD AND GANNETT SO MISMANAGED BY HEDGE FUND VULTURE...
Keep getting this inappropriate message, as do other readers, because oligopolistic GANNETT's vulture capitalist Wall Street hedge fund managers know not that they know not that they now not!:This...
View ArticleShrinking newspaper, shirking First Amendment duties to be watchdogs, not...
My late friend and mentor, Nat Caldwell, Nashville newspaper reporter, was a Pulitzer Prize winner for splendid investigative reporting about coal cartels, UMWA and John L. Lewis, leading to Supreme...
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Federal judge says Texas’ ban on mask mandates violates the rights of...
Misguided Republican Governors in Texas and Flori-DUH don't give a fig about disabled students' rights, but our federal courts do! From The New York Times: A judge says Texas’ ban on mask mandates...
View ArticleJSO's LGBTQ+ liaison receives mixed reviews from community since its...
Our northern neighbor, Duval County, and its Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, appear to have grown on LGBTQIA+ sensitivity issues, including murders of Black transgender people. Thanks to Jacksonville...
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Dull Republican Jackonsville's Councilman DANNY BECTON (a/k/a "Liberty Bell...
In recent Jacksonville City Council debate on a Confederate women monument, a Dull Republican, DOPEY DANNY BECTON made reference to the Liberty Bell being in Boston. Sweetheart it is in Philadelphia My...
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58,000 Dead, and Depraved DeSantis Is Just Getting Started MADNESS (Opinion,...
Flori-DUH Governor RONALD DION DerSANTIS bears responsibility for some of the 58,000 COVID-19 deaths in Florida. Not for all of them, but perhaps most of them. What do you reckon? 58,000 Dead, and...
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How the new infrastructure bill will boost Florida | Editorial (Tampa Bay Times)
All four of our federal representatives from St. Augustine voted against the infrastructure bill that President Biden will sign into law on Monday, November 15, 2021. Thanks to St. Augustine Mayor...
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The Leaf Blower and the Robocall: America's Social Predicament If we can't...
Unfettered oligopolists bring you unregulated noisome nuisances like the leaf blower and poorly regulated frauds like robocalls. From Common Dreams:A person working as a leaf blower walks past an...
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A plan to drill two more oil wells in Big Cypress Swamp is being challenged....
The Everglades needs oil drilling the way a moose needs a hat rack. Already cursed with Big Sugar environmental pollution, the Everglades does not need any more polluition by Big Oil. From WUSF: A...
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Repeal Florida law that blocks scrutiny of redistricting records, 2 lawmakers...
Maps display district lines as constituents gather to voice their opinion to House and Senate members during a 2011 Florida Legislature redistricting hearing in Orlando. [ JOE BURBANK | Orlando...
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Residents warned of crocodile at Florida country club that can’t be removed....
While Florida politicians rubberstamp creepy developer projects, we have hundreds of thousands of unoccupied homes and condos, and homeless crocodiles and alligators. From Creative Loafing Tampa:...
View Article"Closing the Courthouse Doors -- The Injustice of Forced Arbitration...
In 1989, U.S. Department of Labor Associate Chief Administrative Law Judge James L. Guill and I co-wrote, "A Rush to Unfairness -- the Downside to Alternative Dispute Resolution," in the peer-reviewed...
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Polish Nazi Resister, 94, Tells Right-Wing Extremist To Shut Up, 'You Lousy...
Four star General George Smith Patton, Jr. wrote, "I find that moral courage is the most valuable and most usually absent characteristic."Letter to Beatrice (22 August 1943), published in The Patton...
View ArticleHelp promote healing here in St. Augustine
On November 8, 2021, I spoke at St. Augustine City Commission in support of honoring City's commitment on 1897 Isaac Barrett lynching marker, and in support of honoring: 1. U.S. Colored Troops, as UF...
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Adam Kinzinger: Republicans Are ‘Frigging Crazy’ -- The Illinois...
"I haven’t changed. The Republican Party has changed into an authoritarian Trump organization. They’re the RINOs. Trump is a RINO.” -- U.S. Rep. Adam KinzingerFrom The Atlantic Monthly; Adam Kinzinger:...
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