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Archive for August, 2005

MOSI: Educators And Entrepreneurs

The Museum of Science and Industry is lucky to have Wit Ostrenko for president – for the same reason that the Florida Aquarium is fortunate to have Thom Stork as its president/CEO. They both know that to be successful you have to be both an educator and an entrepreneur. The former speaks to the why, [...]

Fuelish Ways Update

As gas prices continue heading inexorably up, this much seems likely. At some point, the economic hit will be significant, perhaps seismic. Also evident is this: We are preparing for such a scenario as if deferring the day of reckoning is a viable strategy. We have, in effect, an ostrich plan, but there is no [...]

Costas' Correct Call

In the scheme of things, it probably won’t warrant more than a footnote in the chronology of saturation news coverage and cable news fixations. But let’s hear it for Bob Costas refusing to pinch hit for CNN’s Larry King last week. The subjects were Natalee Holloway still unfound in Aruba and more postmortems on the [...]

Costas’ Correct Call

In the scheme of things, it probably won’t warrant more than a footnote in the chronology of saturation news coverage and cable news fixations. But let’s hear it for Bob Costas refusing to pinch hit for CNN’s Larry King last week. The subjects were Natalee Holloway still unfound in Aruba and more postmortems on the [...]

Robertson's Gotta Go – Feet First

“Take him out!” Hugo Chavez? No, Pat Robertson. Please. Feet (after removal from mouth) first. Robertson, who doesn’t stop at character assassination when it comes to Venezuela’s elected socialist president, doesn’t speak for the United States and hopefully not for any Christians. He’s simply an evangelical fool who owns his own network and hosts the [...]

Robertson’s Gotta Go – Feet First

“Take him out!” Hugo Chavez? No, Pat Robertson. Please. Feet (after removal from mouth) first. Robertson, who doesn’t stop at character assassination when it comes to Venezuela’s elected socialist president, doesn’t speak for the United States and hopefully not for any Christians. He’s simply an evangelical fool who owns his own network and hosts the [...]

No Safe Havens For The Enemy Within

Those blaming Tony Blair for being George W. Bush’s eloquent caddy on Iraq, should concede this: He’s making the right call in the aftermath of last month’s terrorist bombings – and near bombings – in London. It’s time for the Brits to show more than a stiff upper lip. “Staying here carries with it a [...]

Tampa Bay's Notorious 5

Bernard Goldberg’s latest shot across the bow of liberalism, “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America,” includes many all too familiar names: from Michael Moore and Jerry Springer to Eminem and Maury Povich. They skew and coarsen the culture, contends Goldberg. It’s not that hard a case to make. The challenge had to be narrowing [...]

Tampa Bay’s Notorious 5

Bernard Goldberg’s latest shot across the bow of liberalism, “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America,” includes many all too familiar names: from Michael Moore and Jerry Springer to Eminem and Maury Povich. They skew and coarsen the culture, contends Goldberg. It’s not that hard a case to make. The challenge had to be narrowing [...]

Back To School: Leave No Felon Behind

Oh, that first week of school. We’ve all been there, in one capacity or another. It’s an institutional rite of passage where shear enthusiasm and anticipation ultimately trump uncertainty and anxiety — and the de facto end of summer. But those first few days can be confusing for many, chaotic for a few. Logistics that [...]