Tag Archives: Florida

Show Trials and the Media

Home is close to the site of the Casey Anthony trial. If you have not heard of that trial, you have not turned on the telly, opened a news­pa­per, lis­tened to a radio talk show, logged on to Twit­ter, had … Con­tinue read­ing

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Incarceration and Punishment in America

For­get reha­bil­i­ta­tion, it is not really in the Amer­i­can spirit. We may talk about it, but as a peo­ple, we do not sup­port it. But what we are doing is not work­ing. Whether you believe we are doing the right … Con­tinue read­ing

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Dirty Words in Florida

I just love the State of the Mouse. It elects some of the most enter­tain­ing char­ac­ters to pub­lic office. At least you have to keep telling your­self that their actions are enter­tain­ing. If you let your­self remem­ber that they actu­ally … Con­tinue read­ing

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Florida Won’t Fight End of Ban on Gay and Lesbian Adoptions

But they would if they thought they would win. A recent court rul­ing by the state’s 3rd Dis­trict Court of Appeal over­turned the State of Florida’s 33-year-old law ban­ning adop­tions by gay men and les­bians. Florida is the last remain­ing state … Con­tinue read­ing

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Little Dicks or Little Minds

A TSA employee is shown from the back in this body scan taken in Atlanta, Geor­gia. An amaz­ingly dim-witted idiot who works for the Trans­porta­tion Secu­rity Admin­is­tra­tion at Miami Inter­na­tional Air­port in Florida recently so abused a co-worker about the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Misguided Parental Censorship

Amer­i­cans love Free­dom of Speech, Free­dom of Press, that is they love it so long as it does not offend their Puri­tan ethics. Accord­ing to The Orlando Sen­tinel: Long­wood, FL par­ent, Tina Harden, was so dis­turbed by ref­er­ences to sex … Con­tinue read­ing

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Racial, National Bias

Was raised sev­eral hours east of the Prime Merid­ian and well south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Would have been born there but Mom and Dad were away from what was then the fam­ily home­stead for edu­ca­tion rea­sons. So was actu­ally … Con­tinue read­ing

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Randoms — Belle de Jour’s Tallahassee Ass

Ran across a ref­er­ence to “my sweet Tal­la­has­see ass” made by Belle de Jour (Dr. Brooke Mag­nanti) that she made on her blog just after she “outed” her­self. Wait a minute, from a Lon­don call girl/cancer scientist/ex-physicist wanna-be. This from … Con­tinue read­ing

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