We’ll leave this post as an open thread. Which means you can use the comments below to tell us what you think about anything you see or do today. And after you vote, go get some free stuff!
It took Wayne Garcia 1 hour and 15 minutes to vote this week. His masterful writing skillz make it sound as if it were a complete nightmare. It took Kate more than an hour, too. Her expressive writing skillz make it sound as if it were a trippidy acid trip. With kids in tow. My writing [...]
An open letter to Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark: Dear Ms. Clark, OPEN MORE EARLY VOTING SITES, you knucklehead. Sincerely, Tommy There are 13 places to vote in Hillsborough County, with long lines at many of them tallying record numbers of votes. Pinellas only has three sites for early voting. Update 29 Oct 5pm: Deborah [...]
They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. It looks like The Tennessee Tribune is laying some asphalt. In the hopes of encouraging their citizens to vote in 2008, the weekly newspaper that reaches to the heart of Tennessee’s Black community has printed thousands of names of Nashville Citizens Registered to [...]
I’m sure you have seen the ads between Christine Jennings and Vern Buchanan. In her attacks, Jennings accuses Buchanan of all sorts of ugly wrongdoing. In response, Buchanan says that newspapers have refuted those ads as nonsense. In taking a closer look at all the allegations, Wayne Garcia calls all of them “bullshit.” Advertising is great [...]
Janet Zink’s latest is about the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections (SOE) race. It sounds like she walked through downtown Tampa and asked random citizens about the incumbent and his challenger. The gist is that people don’t really know that Phyllis Busansky is running for SOE, and Janet got three quotes saying just that. But that [...]
We recently mentioned the low voter turnout for the primaries in Pinellas and Hillsborough, and suggested that you just don’t care about picking a leader. But was that a fair statement? Creative Loafing’s Wayne Garcia weighed in on the sorry turnout for voting in the primaries, calling it “crappy.” He says the “circumstances” include (my highlights): few [...]
Apathy: Main Entry: ap·a·thy Pronunciation: a-pə-thē\ Function: noun Etymology: Greek apatheia, from apathēs without feeling, from a- + pathos emotion Date: 1594 1: lack of feeling or emotion – impassiveness 2: lack of interest or concern – indifference One out of six. Imagine any six people you know, and then consider that only [...]
