Mayan Apocalypse 2012 – Or, don’t believe everything you read in the movies!
“It’s the big one, Elizabeth!” The immortal words of Fred Sanford begin what could be my last column for the last ever edition of the Weekly Newspapers...
Since when is the World Wide Web not worldwide? Or, how best to market...
Heads in beds.
It’s not the title of a horror movie (although it would make a great horror movie title). It’s the ultimate goal of our tourist industry,...
Then I Saw His Face (mugshot)… I’m not a Belieber…
I can’t say that I have ever liked Justin Bieber. Now this may come as a shock to ’tween and teen girls who think he’s the shizzle,...
Who Are You? (Tell me who are you!)
I recently had another birthday. It wasn’t a big one that ended in a zero or anything like that, but it became a birthday of monumental proportions because of one essential task: the need to renew my Florida Driver License! (Cue horror music and bloodcurdling scream.)
Monroe County Commission going up in smoke over new rule – Smoke ‘em if...
What were they smoking?
Last week, the Monroe County Commission ruled that smokers have no place in the Monroe County workplace. The Commission voted unanimously to prohibit hiring...
A guide to the local wildlife that doesn’t hang out in bars – Dangerous...
Visitors to our islands often notice that the various types of wildlife that inhabit these coral rocks are different that the species they have at home. No...
Is the U.S.A. becoming dumb and dumber?
Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, a Pulitzer Prize winner (and remnant of what once was one of our great newspapers), once wrote a column called “Losing the...
Party With A Purpose – The Best of Marathon, Rotary, and the Official After...
The votes are in, the tabulation commences, and we’ll all find out who the winners are in the Best of Marathon next Saturday night! Your participation in...
Newspaper headlines, not texting, forecast the demise of the English language – But texting...
The beginning of the 21st Century may be looked back upon as the time when the English language finally met its demise. Grammar and spelling violations have...
Bartus has been soaring with the Eagles for many years…
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I was a young musician who happened to be enrolled in the marine biology program at...
