"The Bucs are on a bye! Now they can't lose!" Some variation of that declaration was virtually unavoidable for fans all last week. With the 35-7 British Browbeating still fresh and an 0-7 record a numbing reality, sarcastic mockery comes as no surprise. ...more

November 9, 2009

While the potentially dangerous Conficker worm was being tracked throughout April Fools' Day, more harmless hoaxes were being fired out across the Internet. ...more

April 1, 2009

Many racial caricatures and stereotypes have disappeared over the years, such as African-American mammy or Sambo characters, or the Frito Bandito frowned upon by Hispanics. Now Ruby Beaulieu and American Indian Movement supporters intend to crusade to retire what she calls "racially offensive" stereotypes and caricatures of Native Americans that still linger at Chasco Fiesta. ...more

March 18, 2009

Here we go again. Following Israel's war with Hizballah in 2006 in Lebanon, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah said, to much mockery in the Arab world, that had he known Israel would respond so decisively Hizballah would never have initiated hostilities. ...more

March 7, 2009

Teams of EU monitors arrived Sunday at natural gas transit sites along Ukraine's vast pipeline network, but still no gas flowed to a freezing Europe. ...more

January 12, 2009

Shame on us! Shame on the president! Shame on the Secret Service! Shame on the Iraqis! Shame on the world that hates not only our president but all Americans in general and as person to person as well! ...more

December 23, 2008

"My Life and Hard Times," by James Thurber (Harper Perennial, $11) ...more

October 26, 2008

Florida's Board of Governors and others routinely criticize the Bright Futures scholarship program. ...more

September 16, 2008

I feel compelled to write this letter in the hope that others who are getting the same treatment will stand up and say "enough!" What I am referring to is my TRIM notice from our esteemed property appraiser, Alvin Mazourek, who always seems to use technical excuses and "selective" use of sales to inflate our property values. ...more

August 28, 2008

The American people support more human aid than any other entity on the planet. We show up for every catastrophe worldwide, and we provide protection for many smaller countries at the cost of many American lives and limbs. Why is it that we have developed our assets and technology to such a level that we are ready and willing to do so much for the world? Certainly not by allowing anybody to push us around at will. ...more

July 10, 2008