Labor Day in South Florida doesn’t really mean what it does elsewhere. If you want to wear white after it, nobody cares — rock on with your tacky self. It doesn’t signal the end of hot weather, either. (Nothing ever does). What it does mean, though, is, probably, an influx of tourists on your usual [...]
Tuesday afternoon: Provisions: two six-packs of Flying Dog Brewery’s “Raging Bitch” Belgian-style pale ale. Carton of cigarettes. A well-charged phone and access to GrubHub. TV on C-SPAN. Click! Some kind of huge young Republican male is talking angrily about how Obama’s screwed his generation. And now a similarly huge young Republican female is doing likewise, giving [...]
First, let’s consider some facts: Fact one: Paul Ryan is a liar. You can see recent evidence of that here, here, here, here, and here. Fact two: Paul Ryan is a Catholic — and touts himself as a devout believer at that. He made a point to go to a weekday mass after accepting the GOP’s vice [...]
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan don’t pull any punches. So don’t expect any glossed-over facts about the American political machine in their new book The Silenced Majority. The sequel to their New York Times bestselling book Breaking the Sound Barrier, based on their Kings Features Syndicate column of the same name, Goodman (host of the grassroots public television and radio program [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
