April Fools The week ending on April 4, 2025 It's been a long month this week, so this post is longer than I intended. A whole bunch of tomfoolery, just in time April Fools Day. I think it's all important and pertinent and maybe a bit unique to
Week ending March 28, 2025 It ain't easy being optimistic, but I'm trying. I promise. Finite Disappointment Those who know me are aware that I'm not an optimist by nature. But with massive fires burning 25,000 acres just to our south, Florida retaking its title as the fraud
Week ending March 21 Finite Disappointment Instead of an opportunity to bring the community together to discuss the real pain and suffering going on in Gaza and Israel--for both Palestinians and Israelis (the links are to two different movies that both come with a trigger warning)--the Mayor of Miami Beach, Steven Meiner, chose
Rant on "ads" You should be using an ad blocker. That sentence deserves to be a paragraph on its own. Why? Because the ad blocker isn't actually blocking ads so much as it is blocking tracking data from your device being harvested by the website you're accessing and being
Week ending in March 14, 2025 Finite Disappointment Florida is positioning itself as the "vanguard" of Trump's immigration policies. While about 25 police and sheriff's departments nationwide outside of Florida have signed on to the revived immigration enforcement via ICE's 287(g) program shuttered under Obama due to
Week ending March 7, 2025 Finite Disappointment Our community quietly received the news that the relatively ancient nuclear power plant on the shores of Biscayne National Park and between that park and the largest American crocodile breeding ground in the world, would have its life extended decades past its operational life expectancy. You can see
The Great Flood Asheville, Sacramento 1861 Human-made disasters The Great Flood of 1861-1862 My hometown of Sacramento was functionally annihilated in the Winter of 1861, while the rest of the country was at war. Indeed, the flooding that started in November of 1861 and ended in February of 1862 functionally destroyed what is