"Better Off Ted" is back and we're better off for it. Last season, I dismissed this comedy based on the pilot episode. But I was wrong. With each episode, it got better and soon it became "critically acclaimed," but the audience wasn't there yet. ...more

December 8, 2009

Some beloved Christmas characters embrace the holidays; others need a little convincing. Which classic character best describes your holiday personality? ...more

November 29, 2009

At his invitation I re-read Jim Gries' letter twice with my reading glasses to make sure I didn't miss a punctuation mark which may have slanted my interpretation of his context. I still found it arrogant and insulting and pointedly left leaning. Picture this, Jim, me standing here with my right hand raised and my left hand on the Bible and my swearing that I haven't listened to Rush Limbaugh, Kieth Oberman or Chris Matthews once in the last six or seven years and I never even heard of "Local Bob" whoever he is. I confess I have watched the Sean Hannity TV show two or three times in the last five years, and you are right ... he is a screechingly repetitious bloviator, but amazingly, listening to him did not cause my gray matter to turn into a gelatinous blob and come oozing out of my cranial orifaces! Maybe they all are bloviators. Who cares. It's their constitutional right to be, just as it's yours to disparage them for it, and mine to flip it back at you. I don't care for the opinions of any of them; but I guess because you include Chris Mathews that makes your attitude fair and balanced. Neither do I really care much about who is on your list so much as I do that you have a list in the first place. ...more

November 6, 2009

It's déja vu all over again. Joseph McCarthy is alive and well. Remember the 1940s and '50s, when there was a communist under every bush? Well it seems the Republicans have brought him back. "Obama and his staff are all communists!" What's next, a bomb shelter in every yard? Good grief! Find a new slogan; something that makes sense, not a campaign of fear again. ...more

September 30, 2009

A Christmas Story Hello out there to my fellow Hernando Today readers. I have one of those warm and fuzzy Christmas stories to share. Just when you thought I had nothing good to say. (Hey, that was about property taxes!) ...more

December 25, 2008

It is probably a sign that things are hardly going gangbusters for your presidential campaign when your police escort is larger than the crowd of supporters who show up to cheer you on. ...more

November 1, 2008

Maybe the best way to appreciate why the elephant-you-know-what has royally hit the fan over at the Lowry Park Zoo, is to suppose for a moment that the attraction's president, Lex Salisbury, was instead a Hillsborough County commissioner. ...more

September 13, 2008

It is probably fair to say that when you've been sentenced to 200 years in federal prison on numerous drug charges you're probably not having a very good day. ...more

September 11, 2008

Well, this much is pretty certain: Not only can't money buy you class, it won't help much in paying for low-rent cheesiness, either. ...more

September 9, 2008

A few weeks ago Frances Earl, Hernando County's curmudgeon-in-chief, used the entire first half of her column trying to convince everyone how intelligent she was. I guess she thought that was necessary because she must have gotten a handle on the majority of the readership's real opinion. ...more

September 6, 2008