There are many unique things about the American south, especially the southeast. Food. Culture. Florida. But today I’m thinking mostly about hurricanes. And it’s the southern, often southeastern, states in the U.S. that generally handle them. When it comes to hurricanes, we’re your huckleberry, if I may paraphrase. And as I write, hurricane Isaias has …
#NeverHillary First (and always), it was #NeverHillary. That was the only certainty for me in the 2016 Presidential election. Beyond being the first female Presidential nominee, Hillary brought nothing new to the table. Another family political dynasty. Another old guard “it’s my turn” candidate in the vein of Bob Dole and John McCain. Four more …
Continue reading #Never Say #Never: One Voter’s Journey (2016 edition)
“Next Tuesday is Election Day. Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls, will stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision, it might be well if you would ask yourself, are you better off than you were four years ago? Is it easier …
“Big things have small beginnings.” It’s a memorable line from a film that should have heeded its own advice. Ostensibly the beginning of the Alien franchise, Prometheus is anything but small. It’s a bloated affair, crammed as full of b-movie clichés as it is of Big Ideas, and weighed down by both. It begins with …
Retrospective… In 1955, James Bond could see the end of the road ahead. Sensing the possibility of death was, in fact, the very reason for his extravagant appetites in life: “On these things he spent all his money and it was his ambition to have as little as possible in his banking account when he …
Continue reading Book Review: Jeffery Deaver’s Carte Blanche
The small hospital waiting room was too full. Most sat shoulder to shoulder quietly staring at cell phones, iPads and Kindles, largely ignoring the table of full of magazines. It was one of those rooms where if anyone spoke, everyone heard. That fact didn’t stop a mother and daughter from engaging in a loud, animated …
Continue reading Adventures in a Hospital Waiting Room (The Baritone Witness)
To blog or not to blog? More to the point, what to blog about? After which comes the question of how not to create the one-millionth abandoned blog, born of a flurry of entries in the first month or two, and resting in endless silence thereafter. For most, a blog is more about self-expression and …