This is an open letter mailed to Karl Nurse. I hope you will join me in this effort. Dear Council Member Nurse: – It was a pleasure to see you at the clean-up effort at Mirror Lake this past Saturday — it’s always reassuring to see our elected officials rolling up their sleeves to make our city a better place to live. – As we discussed, I am concerned about the influence of money in this year’s municipal elections. With…
Just as soon as I implore Mayor Rick Baker to shave his mustache if he runs for CFO next year, The Huffington Post declares 2008 the Year of the Mustache: “2008 was a great year to be a mustache in America. And when we say mustache, we’re not talking about the ironic, hipster, Hollywood variety, but rather the real, I’m-a-political-power-player, downright manly mustache.”
It just so happened that I was reading this article about religious protesters marching through the crowd at Saturday’s St. Pete Pride festival at the same time I was watching the movie Pleasantville, a “kind of parable that encourages us to re-evaluate the good old days and take a fresh look at the new world we so easily dismiss as decadent.” I can’t help but draw a comparison between the ignorant trouble-makers that showed up to protest the Pride Festival…
