From the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, where Recount, a movie about the 2000 election, is being filmed: OVERHEARD Don’t know much about recent history Two 20-somethings chatting in a San Marco bakery earlier this week. First guy: They’re filming some stuff for that HBO movie Recount today. Second guy: Yeah, I saw the crew working [...]

Shades of 2000: Key West election decided by pulling name out of hat But, the funniest part? Harry Sawyer, Monroe County’s supervisor of elections, says the same hat was used to break a tie in 1985 on a decision to purchase a county fire truck. If only that hat could talk…

There are lots of dating sites out there, but very few of them are free. Most have some monthly or quarterly charge, as I recall… So, it’s unusual to find a free site with any kind of selection to choose to contact. I did a fairly narrow geographic search on Florida, further narrowed by age [...]

Amy said…We need photographic evidence of your friends to tell for sure. I don’t have much experience with Wisconsin dudes. I mean, Brett Favre is hot, but he’s a Mississippi boy. Well, all I have of the roommate is his old website from the last time he ran for State Assembly in NY 5 years [...]

Here in Florida, we have a lot of state pride. Or, at least, those of us that consider ourselves Floridians rather than transplanted New Yorkers, Ohioans, or Michigonians. United-states-flag.com, the sponsor of this post, is the largest online vendor of flags and flagpoles, with approx 50% of the online market. The store sells a wide [...]

Forgive them – they too young and dumb to realize that once you add a “fee”, it defies the laws of physics that state that something that goes up must come down. Fees never come down, and volunteering to pay them damns the students that follow to pay escalations caused by an ever-increasing portfolio of [...]

We mystery-shopped Harry’s Seafood Bar & Grille in St. Augustine last night. Harry’s has always been a favorite of ours, so we were looking forward to the visit. Unfortunately, it didn’t live up to our previous trips. We arrived at 5:00 and were offered the choice of sitting inside or outside. It was still a [...]