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 [...]

Velva Lee Heraty has a website for her serious business, but to an awful lot of people in the Tampa Bay area, she’s known as Dream Momma, whose dream interpretations show up at http://tampa.creativeloafing.com.

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!

A Slate article titled Puff Daddies, subtitled More Americans over age 50 are smoking marijuana than ever before. Are my parents among them? tells you something you should have known intuitively: that an awful lot of Americans who liked to smoke a joint or two when they were young, but put that sort of [...]

“From up here in the Great White North — that would be Canada, eh! — we watch with some bewilderment as president Barack Obama struggles to get his floundering health care reform bill passed. Truth is, Americans have an amazingly crappy health care system . . . okay, let me rephrase that . . . [...]

We were shocked to find that President Obama is not only trying to socialize Medicare, but has apparently already succeeded in socializing our local EMS (emergency medical service) ambulances. This is especially scary because Manatee County is dominated by Republicans. Are they RINOs? Are they secret communists, planted here back when the Soviet Union was [...]

I PROMISE that I will no longer use the word “wingnuts” to describe Americans who haven’t matured beyond the two-year-old, “Gimme, gimme, it’s mine mine mine, I won’t share my toys and if you try to make me I’ll cry, WAH, WAH, WAH!” stage of life.
A wingnut is an honorable and useful piece of hardware [...]

I am sick and tired of Socialist Firefighters and how they have taken away my liberty.
You think I’m kidding? I’m serious as a heart attack. I just got a $137.44 tax bill for firefighting services.  This is unconstitutional and unfair. It’s unconstitutional because nowhere in the constitution does it say government should provide firefighting [...]