Still a month left in the Atlantic hurricane season: It’s a good time to check your supply kit So far, so good for Central and South Florida this hurricane season (touch wood). Not so for Northwest Florida, the panhandle of our state, which was devastated by Hurricane Michael last month. Especially now that we’re experiencing […]
Last time at Port Fourchon, Louisiana: After the PFPD had gotten their rocks off via levelling 150 semi-automatic rounds at Big “Papa” Green—the bayou bacteria giant born from a spill of Select Oil Company’s barrels of petroleum-eating microbes—they looked on in dismay as Green walked across the bayou’s edge picking up the globs of slime […]
Last time at Port Fourchon, Louisiana: The fire department’s hazmat crew chief, Lieutenant Laurent Pinyon, saw what his junior firefighter had seen: a neon green cryptozoological specimen with the height, the width, and possibly the weight of an old dumptruck, stomping up the bayou, away from the sea and toward them, looking pissed about God […]
Last time at Macondo: Murray Landau, a 72-year-old retired cop and security guard fell asleep and dreamed of chicken Parmesan while an unknown group of saboteurs bearing AR-15s and nightscopes shot up the 125 barrels of petroleum-eating bacteria swimming in saltwater that the guard was supposed to… guard. Murray managed to radio in the event, and […]
Questions of bribery must arise when assessment contractor gets it preposterously wrong “Return your sword to its place, for all who will take up the sword will die by the sword.” — Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 26:52 We live in the United States of America, don’t we, my neighbors? At some point, in this great […]
No further proof needed that oil companies do nothing for safety unless obligated to Yesterday’s coffee boils black in the iron skillet. I cut the flame and take a peek out a front window of the wooden cottage. I’m looking at a minimalist painting of woods and sky in the top half and a smooth […]
Hundreds of new U.S. communities are cropping up with important physical centers—farms Reducing the sizes of private, single-family backyards. Offering instead anywhere from 5 to 300 acres of land for farming that benefits the entire community and neighboring ones. An outgrowth of the farm-to-table movement, this model for city planning is coming into a bumper […]
“Buy-in” follows speaking the language, and buy-in accepts only cash Local and state law enforcement agencies in the United States employ over one million people. The Department of Defense, about two million. Every single one earns every single penny of their paychecks from taxes on the American people. The amount in those paychecks is thus […]
Exaltation of military and police tightly woven into U.S. daily life The September 11, 2001 attacks against targets in the United States and the government’s reaction to it harmed our country in myriad ways, and that harm has spread, morphed, and changed us as citizens, sometimes profoundly. With its tendency to seep into everyday lives […]
Florida governor, media push “blameless catastrophe” narrative With Hurricane Irma churning like a demonic beast only a few hundred miles away, I find myself looking for the antonym for “mass hysteria.” The best I’ve come up with so far is “mass false contentment.” Let me say right away that I’m in no way referring to […]