One of the things I appreciated as a kid growing up in a small town in the 1950s was, I could understand the rules. Don’t lie, cheat, or steal, respect your elders, close the gate, and be home by supper. That was it. There was no secret handshake. You didn’t have any gosh awful bylaws…
The title of my 2003 book, “Useful Idiots,” was a reference to a perhaps apocryphal quote sometimes attributed to Lenin to the effect that gullible liberals in the West would prove useful idiots for the Soviet Union. I wrote about Democrats; 21 years later, the epithet belongs wholeheartedly to the GOP. Their choice to support…
Joe Biden spent his first three years in office telling everyone that “our southern border is secure.” He would squint into the cameras, looking like that banjo player from Deliverance, and say that. Yet we all knew he was not serious about it because he put Kamala Harris in charge. The only less genuine effort…
Hi Y’all. The Lanark Village Golf Club had its monthly Yard Sale on Saturday, Feb. 3. This event has been changed to the first Saturday of each month. Remember to bring those donations on sale day. Thank you for your continued support. Also, the Golf Club meeting will be held at the LV Boat club…
Aboard my boat “Lily,” we take folks on eco-tours up the Apalachicola River into the pristine 246,000-acre estuarine reserve on average of some 125 times a year. We’ve operated for 13 years. My license allows us to take six folks so let’s say we average three folks per cruise. If you multiply that out, that’s…
Even for the left, it is getting harder to ignore the aging of Joe Biden that is happening before our eyes. Biden takes as many vacations as an 80-year-old in retirement with no job. Biden is at one of his beachfront homes now, fighting back rising sea levels for us. By one estimate, he has…
Much of the banter surrounding the rise of China’s electric vehicle (EV) industry and the implication for the global economy is misleadingly alarmist. When our government gets involved in such narratives, it calls into question the sincerity of its insistence that EVs are essential to an existential battle against climate change. If China’s foray succeeds,…
By Joan Matey Guest Columnist What’s the draw to come to the Panhandle coast of Florida? What would we like to have visitors say about our area? Franklin County has long had the moniker of the Forgotten Coast. We were remote, natural, under-developed… surrounding areas referred to this land as “the Real Florida” and we…
Experts will advise you never to eat meat with cream sauce at a buffet; always to lock your car even when just dashing into the 7-Eleven for two minutes; and never to read national polls in the year before an election. But there are coping mechanisms if you, like me, fail on the third. Two…
When our beloved Apalachicola Times editor David Adlerstein confessed recently that he had bats in his belfry (the phrase dates to the late 19th century.), I was afraid his ultra-long workweeks had finally driven him batty. Then I realized he meant literally, not metaphorically. A “colony” of the flying mammals (sometimes also called a “camp,”…
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