The Current Situation

Tallahassee mayor and Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum at Café con Tampa

Someday, perhaps a decade from now, when we’re all looking back at how far the Tampa Bay area has come,…

8 years ago

If you need a reason to be FOR net neutrality, just look at who’s AGAINST it

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, chances are that you’ve seen a lot of arguments made by well-known,…

8 years ago

I had to disavow the Nazis. Why can’t the president?

That’s me on the right, on Thursday, January 26, 2017, celebrating the acquisition of my permanent resident status in the…

8 years ago

Don’t know much about history…

Not all of us (myself included) were schooled in the United States, so you may have heard Donald Trump’s reference to Andrew…

9 years ago

That really happened: Putin orders crackdown on fake booze after dozens of Russians die from drinking bath lotion

Siberian Times photo. Click to see the source. 75 people have been reported dead in the Siberian city of Irktusk…

9 years ago

My take on last night’s election results

I moved from Canada for her... ...and I’m staying for the same reason. My plan for these soon-to-be interesting times is simple:…

9 years ago

First they came for the journalists… (or: A t-shirt from today’s Trump rally in Minnesota)

"Rope. Tree. Journalist." shirt spotted at @realDonaldTrump rally in MN _ Reuters photo by Jonathan Ernst pic.twitter.com/1VTkYPOOVo— Michael Biesecker (@mbieseck)…

9 years ago

So much captured in a single photo

Looking at Nate Gowdy's photo from the Trump rally in Loveland, Colorado, I feel the need to point out a…

9 years ago

This Florida woman’s speech at the RNC explains everything you need to know about the Republican platform

In a mere 41 seconds, Florida woman Michelle Van Etten's gave us the heart of her speech at the Republican…

10 years ago

A quick primer on the Euromaidan — the protests taking place in Ukraine right now

I continue to be surprised with how many people I keep running into who don't know what's going on in…

12 years ago