Monthly Archives: January 2017
Latest I-4 derby between Tampa Bay and Orlando set for March 25 in St Petersburg
The Tampa Bay Rowdies will open the 2017 United Soccer League season at home on Saturday, March 25 against Orlando City B at Al Lang Stadium in St Petersburg. USL announced today all 2017 home openers, which will be highlighted by the Rowdies match against Orlando. This will be the first renewal of the I-4 […]
What does the Times Square billboard tell us about the Rowdies MLS’ bid?
Tuesday morning the soccer social media world was abuzz with discussion of the Tampa Bay Rowdies Times Square billboard for the #MLS2StPete bid. What do we make of the billboard – in a word, BRASH! MLS has historically been a league where conformity is king and rocking the boat is seen as a a detriment […]
50th anniversary of Apollo 1 tragedy
Today, 50 years ago tragedy struck Florida and the American space program. Less than five years after John Glenn orbited the earth and more than two years before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down on the moon, Apollo 1 caught fire and killed three astronauts at Cape Canaveral (which was still known as Cape […]
Trump playing a long game with voter fraud allegations – it’s a cynical Republican ploy
If you turned on CNN anytime in the last 24 hours, you heard nonstop talk about how crazy Donald Trump was to make unfounded and insulting allegations of massive voter fraud. Trump isn’t simply saying these things to stir the pot and justify his own election, since he lost the popular vote by a wide […]
Apalachee Massacre: The English invasion of Florida
On this day in 1704, the English invaded Florida. The Carolina-based English colonists and their native American allies invaded Spanish-held Florida. Former Carolina Governor James Moore led the invasion on behalf of the English colonists. They were resisted by the Apalachee Indians who resided in the Big Bend region and were allies of the Spanish […]
Marco Rubio: Cowardly showhorse
Marco Rubio is a charlatan. He’s the worst kind of deceitful devious politician. Some politicians don’t have any sort of belief system or ideology. That’s not a positive thing obviously, but what is worse is a politician that will or do anything to get elected or to get public praise or attention, but has at […]
Open thread: President Trump and the TPP
President Trump today unilaterally pulled the United States out of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). This unilateral action and the potential of Trump invoking a Brexit-like article to abrogate NAFTA have spread fear this afternoon among many. How do our readers feel about Trump’s actions? Given the Democrats conflicted views about Free Trade, this seems […]
The George W. Bush playbook and media lapdogs conspiring to enable Trump
Donald J. Trump has become President of the United States, an event that has reduced the United States to being an object of ridicule the world over. Trump’s less endearing behavior includes berating political opponents and those whom he characterizes as disloyal Americans. At the top of Trump’s list is the media. Trump’s war against […]
4 lies Democrats still need to stop telling (and one truth we should learn)
The original 5 Lies Florida Democratic Party Needs to Stop Telling Us was published long before the meteoric rise of Bernie Sanders in the primaries, and ultimately, the tragic failure of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. I’ve rewritten the whole essay. Now it’s “4 Lies Democrats still need to stop telling…(and one truth we should learn).” Starting with the one […]
Florida exit polls – Progressiveness at a crossroads and the failure of identity politics
As the world watches the peaceful transition of power in the United States with a certain degree of anxiety and awe progressives look to regroup. Today seems a perfect day to look at the exit polling data from November 8 and try and comprehend how Hillary Clinton lost the Presidency here in Florida. Progressives are […]
The Florida Squeeze 