Pick-up baseball
Ray Judah, the Lee County commissioner with about 20 years in the saddle of public office, has stepped up to the plate. They aren't mixed metaphors, by the way; you can ride to a baseball diamond on horseback and then play ball. I've seen it done in the literal (not here), and now Mr. Judah is doing it in the figurative (right here). Full Story
The rise of self-defeating industrial policy
Washington can't decide whether to save or to smother the American auto industry. A few months ago, GM and Chrysler got a federal lifeline in the form of $17.4 billion in loans, on grounds that their health is essential to the economy. Full Story
Obama and the stimulus
GUEST OPINION
It's still the early days of the Obama presidency, but Yogi Berra's line about Yankee Stadium's creeping shadows applies equally well to the White House — "It gets late early out there." On the two-week anniversary of President Barack Obama's inauguration, the White House had hoped to make headlines by naming Sen. Full Story
Irruption
MUSINGS
Every vehicle of transport that I ride upon is pirate ship. It doesn't matter if it is a car, a bus, a train, a bike, or a long board. What matters is that my presence brings pirate purpose to the journey. My presence names the vessel as irrupting ship a-sail on mutable paths beyond national claim. Full Story
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