Jimmy Carter: I Fear for Our Democracy. (NY Times)
President Jimmy Carter warns of threats to our democracy. Footnote: I was honored to be invited to write the Chelsea House World Leaders biography on President Carter for young readers, published in...
View ArticleSuperspreader? Following DeSantis’ lead, FL Legislature to convene without...
In the United Kingdom, there's a satirical organization called the Monster Raving Loony Party.We in the reality-based community are appalled at racist rebarbative reprobate Florida Governor RONALD DION...
View ArticleDeSantis admits, up to 1 million COVID test kits DID expire in FL Ag...
A million test kits have expired? Where's the legislative oversight from our FLori-DUH Parliament of Whores? You tell me. Willful wanton negigence and recklessness? You tell me. Nonfeasance, misfeaance...
View ArticleFlagler College's New President, John Delaney, Mourns Passing of His Friend,...
New Flagler College President John Delaney recently quoted about his late friend, Bishop Desmond Tutu, who was a scholar in residence at University of North Florida during Delaney's term as President....
View ArticleCommissioner JEREMIAH RAY BLOCKER's Campaign Tops $182,433
As Jesse Unruh said it best, "Money is the mother's milk of politics."Here's new St. Johns County Court Judge Lauren Blocker, et ux, JEREMIAH RAY BLOCKER, County Commissioner, with Sheriff Robert...
View ArticleCommissioner JEREMIAH RAY BLOCKER's County Webpage inaccurately states he's...
J AH RAY BLOCKER, who blocked LGBTQIA+ Pride Proclamation in 2021, is falsely stating he's still County Commission Chair in 2022. BLOCKER has not encumbered the position of BoCC Chair since November...
View ArticleGaetz’s Ex-Girlfriend Testifies Before Federal Grand Jury. (NYTimes)
A federal grand jury is investigating reprobate Florida Republican U.S. Rep. MATT GAETZ for human trafficking of underage girls. Ironically, Florida Congressman MATTHEW LOUIS GAETZ, II was the only...
View ArticleMatt Gaetz asks for Ron DeSantis’ help in fight against music festival...
A songwriters' festival and its patrons contracted between consulting adults to require vaccinations. Good call.An attention-hungry Florida Congressman wants the festival prosecuted for its putative...
View ArticleSt. Augustine officials criticize Sen. Hutson bill requiring economic...
Rich spoiled real estate developer TRAVIS HUTSON, a whorish Dull Republican State Senator (R-HUTSON COMPANIES), chairs our Florida Senate Regulated Industries Committee. The chunky corporate tool loves...
View ArticleLeader of Oath Keepers and 10 Others Indicted in Federal Court for Seditious...
The long arm of the law reached down today and arrested eleven (11) people in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Alabama and Georgia, charGing them with seditious conspiracy in connection with the...
View ArticleThe Record to change print delivery schedule (SAR, January 13, 2022)
Here is the pitiful spin from GANNETT monopolists on their plans to end Saturday printed newspapers -- big mistake. From incredible shrinking St. Augustine Record: The Record to change print delivery...
View ArticleGANNETT LAWYER, EDITOR, DUCK MY QUESTIONS ABOUT DECLINING QUALITY OF ST....
Thomas Jefferson said, "I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." No response from GANNETT to my January 13, 2022 e-mails about possible unfair and deceptive...
View ArticleNASSAU COUNTY SHERIFF ADDS BODY-WORN CAMERAS, WHY IS ST. JOHNS COUNTY AWOL?
Calling it a "false narrative" that "cops needs to be watched," body-worn cameras were arrogantly rejected in a 2016 debate by disgraced corrupt St. Johns County then-Sheriff DAVID SHOAR, who legally...
View ArticleMargaret Sullivan: Reporters, Rebut Lies With "Truth Sandwich". (WaPo)
READ Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan's justified praise of NPR reporter Steve Inskeep for his epic "truth sandwich" takedown of DONALD JOHN TRUMP: StylePerspectiveHow NPR’s Steve...
View ArticleFlorida education officials took aim at local control amid bid-rigging...
Ethically-challenged RICHARD CORCORAN, Education Commissioner, exposed for improper pressures amidst a bid-rigging investigation? From non-profit foundation owned Tampa Bay Times: EWS/THE EDUCATION...
View ArticleOpinion: Martin Luther King Jr.'s words on voting rights resonate all too...
Fondly remembering when Republicans supported voting rights, Washington Post columnist Colbert I. "Colby" King, a Pulitzer Prize winner, writes eloquently of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his...
View ArticleResidents watch as short term rentals and speeding cars fill St. Augustine...
Faster than a speeding dump truck our history, nature and quality of life in St. Augustine and St. Johns County are being destroyed by developers, aided and abetted by corporations like AirBnb. Good...
View ArticleR.I.P., Israel Seymour "Sy" Dresner, -- ‘Most arrested rabbi,’ who marched...
Reform Rabbi Israel S. "Sy" Dresner, a/k/a/ "the most arrested Rabbi" died on January 14, 2021. Rabbi Dresner went to jail four times during 1961-64 in then-segregated Florida and Georgia. His...
View ArticleFlorida legislators get away with their Amendment 1 heist — for now. (Florida...
Florida Forever (Amendment 1) became Florida constitutional law after 75% of Florida voters supported it in 2014. Sierra Club, several Florida law professors, and I. Henry Dean worked to write it --...
View ArticleTravis Hutson files amendment addressing home rule concerns with preemption...
Senator Travis Hutson's Draconian preemption bill has been amended, and I am almost starting to like it.Good compromises make for good laws.That's the essence of our democratic republic. Our Florida...
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