7 Year-Old Sent to Hospital Under Baker Act – Incompetent Parents Might Sue
How many times have you read about some nutty kid who shoots up a school or hurts himself and the surrounding community blames school officials? Dozens of times, right? Schools are then required to do certain things under the law if presented with a child who might be at risk to hurt himself or others. [...]
Tampa Bay Has Sunshine – and Syphilis
STD rates are rising in Hillsborough County and the Florida Catholic Conference wants an abstinence-only curriculum “arguing that children who learn about contraceptives in school are more sexually active.” Kids get bored and have sex. If they have condoms on them, they are more likely to use them. If they know how to use them [...]
Florida Legislature to Florida Teachers – Screw You – Seeks to End Tenure
Tenure is a joke. It keeps bad teachers on the job and makes it difficult, if not impossible, to fire them. CTA (Classroom Teachers Association) says tenure is necessary to protect teachers from batshit crazy administrators. Nonsense. What other job allows you to underperform without repercussions – allowing someone to keep a job indefinitely until [...]
Power Shift ’09 Lobby Day
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Supreme Court Justice Charles Wells is Out. Who’s In?
Florida Supreme Court Justice Charles Wells has decided to gracefully surrender the things of youth, take up crossword puzzles and start drinking during the day. What? Isn’t that what everyone does during retirement or just my relatives? Anyway, when Governor Charlie Crist isn’t contemplating a Senate run, he’s thinking about selecting Wells’ replacement. Dude has [...]
So This is What It’s Like to Work for a Living
Business is good, but my legs are sore. I’m in desperate need of a backrub. And a bubble bath. Okay, focus. Eyes up here. Where was I? In this economy, I’m not turning away a single client. I also know better than to complain because record layoffs mean plenty of people out there would love [...]
Denial Ain’t Just a River
What’s up with Pope Benedict? While I was in Atlanta last week, Dude went and took a giant step to the right. He welcomed back into the fold a few crazies who organize under “the Society of St. Pius X.” This is a society of pissed-off Catholics (read: Mel Gibson’s heroes), angry about the reforms [...]
Chapter 16
A little break from parenting and politics – for your reading pleasure.
Peanut Butter: 8 Pot: 0
I’m not really a slacker. I’ve just been in Atlanta all week on business. But nothing gets me going more than the angry rantings of the mad right. Recently, Michael Phelps was caught hitting the bong. And some people want him to pay. So they’ve been writing to Kellogg in the hopes he’d be kicked [...]
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