Unions not only destroyed many once-proud American businesses, but also promulgated such evils as a 40 hour workweek (remember that?), health and safety regulations on the job that have saved many workers’ lives, paid vacations, and the now-discredited idea of defined-benefit pensions, plus a particular horror this country used to value called “job security.”
And let’s [...]

I believe the economic prediction economy has recovered and is now quite healthy. Indeed, here in Florida economists never really felt a recession. If anything, the recession created a greater market for them than ever, since local news media here have been running, “Economist says real estate has bottomed, now is the time to buy,” [...]

A video I didn’t make that shows just about every TV news cliche I avoid in my own work.

The Ponzi scheme prosecutions we’ve been reading about lately are unfair, and I blame the Democrats, or “Dumbocrats” as some call them, for treating business people as criminals when all they were trying to do was maximize profits. Here’s why:

This Stealers Wheel classic totally sums up my feeling toward today’s political stupidity and the yammerheads who spout it.

First, my Sarasota version of the original lyrics:
Well we’re living here in Cougar Town
And they’re closing all the art galleries down
Out in Bradenton they’re killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line….

So here I am, reading newspapers online and preparing for another day of boring video editing, and a noise out front captures my ears. It is the sound of socialism in action — in the form of a county-owned street cleaning truck coming up our street.

That’s right, seniors. Speak up. Tell your representatives how much you resent socialized medicine and want it shut down. Medicare is nothing but socialized medicine combined with age discrimination. There is no constitutional authority for it, and it corrupts the American system of competitive medical care and the sacred one-on-one relationship between a patient and [...]

Are you in favor of socialism? If you support Medicare, you must be. And do you support age discrimination? If you support Medicare, you obviously do. That’s fine. But if you are against “socialized medicine” and you are on or you support Medicare, please do not be surprised when people with three-digit IQs treat you [...]

The first-ever Tampa/St. Petersburg Short Film Festival was held at Nova 535 in St. Pete the evening of 9/9/2009. It was a fine and interesting event. You should have been there!