Every war has its unlikely soldiers. There’s my retired neighbor again- the one I wrote about before. His wife died of cancer, and then his golden retriever died of cancer. I feel really bad for him, he’s so alone, and in his loneliness...he’s at war. It’s wartime right now in…

When I first heard hundreds of millions of taxpayer $$$ were being handed to military and private corporations to create drones, robots and other “unmanned vehicles” for surveillance, warfare, and assassination, I immediately recalled the movie They Live, the prophetic 1988 film accurately and symbolically predicted what’s happened to our…

Several years ago, a close friend of mine learned that the Monsanto of retail, Walmart, had acquired 74 acres of native Florida land on the banks of a river, near a small town known as Tarpon Springs. My friend’s parents live near that river, just off a stretch of highway…

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I was lucky enough to get backstage to meet Damian Marley a few years ago, and I wonder what he thinks of the new documentary about his father, Marley, which opened on 4-20 and was made by director Kevin Macdonald, who previously did a documentary about Mick Jagger. When I…

When you’re a journalist, a free upgrade to a first-class airplane seat is more than just an unearned opportunity to enjoy cushy seats, more legroom, and sumptuous meals. What I really enjoy is sitting next to high-powered rich people, with whom I employ my journalistic persona: smile a lot, affirm…

Florida prosecutors finally did the right thing and charged George Zimmerman with second-degree murder 44 days after local police whitewashed his killing of Trayvon Martin and let him walk free. But looking at this crazy situation, I still think I’ve died and woken up in a real-life version of Idiocracy,…

Springtime in the suburbs. Here’s how my suburb came to exist… A farmer and his family grew corn, greens, and alfalfa here for six generations. Until 19 years ago, the rains came reliably in the right amounts and times so his crops grew fine. Then the rains went away and…

When President Obama described the Republican budget plan as “social Darwinism,” he stepped into a pile of steaming dog doo that will stink up the whole house, including the White House Because if you ask most people about evolution and scientist Charles Darwin who pioneered it, you find out why…

Two guys met on a rainy night in Florida. Trayvon Martin wore a hoodie. George Zimmerman wore a gun. When it was done, there was a dead one, and the other one was in hiding, on the run. More than two million people signed a petition demanding Mr. Zimmerman be…