I’m not talking about Republicans here. They’ve decided to become a shrinking minority party, and their de facto leader, Rush Limbaugh, has allied himself with Kim Jong Il, Osama bin Laden, Hugo Chavez, and other nasties who want to see our president fail. So forget the Republicans.

I had a revelation one evening at a Walgreens Drug Store in Bradenton, which I suppose is as good a place to have a revelation as any. It was about Jesus, Passover, and Easter. In a flash, I suddenly realized why Christianity is popular and Judaism is not. (Note: I wrote this piece in 2006, [...]

We all know how a newspaper is supposed to look. But today, newspapers are forgetting their proud traditions and letting electronic computers ruin their appearance, not to mention upsetting well-established newsroom and pressroom traditions.
Doing page makeup in a type case is an art, and it’s one readers appreciate. Every time they pick up their newspapers, [...]

…for her first-ever media interview. Even though both real and mascot sea turtles are basically shy, retiring creatures, we convinced Shelley to do this interview to celebrate the ribbon-cutting for her friend Hang Tough’s new tank. Since turtles can’t talk, Mote employee Sarah Alessi (who is a skilled English-to-Turtle and Turtle-to-English translator) helped us communicate [...]

Nothing special; just one minute of rain here at the Fair Lane Acres mobile home park in Bradenton, Florida. One of our local TV stations (WTSP; Ch. 10) likes me to send them “weather” clips, which is why I did this. The pay is pretty horrid, but at least when my commercial video clients ask [...]

AVI + Xvid is my favorite online video delivery container/codec combination because it gives me the most consistent, and clearest HD upload results across multiple video sharing sites, not all of which transcode to Flash equally well from all codecs and containers.. This video will show you how to get Xvid — from xvid.org/ — [...]