I’ve been waiting on Ernesto to arrive for a couple of days now. He didn’t come here as a hurricane, or even a tropical storm. Ernesto is a tropical depression, and not really even worthy of a name. Still, it’s a tropical cyclone and that makes today a storm day. That’s supposed to be like a snow day, for those of you who live in the...

Something really stupid is happening in Central Florida lately. Brash, young idiots are playing chicken with cops. The idiots operating vehicles aim at a cop standing by on the street, rev the engine, and (I’m guessing) hope he’ll jump out of the way so they can escape getting pulled over. There’s a flaw in their theory. The idiots are...

Ah, the smell of the season’s first hurricane. It’s not unlike the anticipation of Christmas, only with destruction instead of presents. If you have enough small kids, perhaps the two events are more similar than you’d like to admit. I won’t pretend to give you hurricane updates. You can find that at a number of places. My favorite...

It’s election season. That means we get tons of news about things done and said by people seeking office. This year, we get the ever entertaining Katherine Harris running for Senate. She’s on the Republican ticket, but the Republicans in power don’t seem to want her. Considering some of the things she does and says, no wonder. Consider...

Labor Day weekend means it’s time for cops to make threats to the driving public. After last year’s record death toll – 44 people died in crashes across Florida – the cops are making their biggest threat yet. They promise to jail anyone who breaks the law. Let’s think about that. If you get caught driving drunk, you go to jail. ...