RON DESANTIS SOUNDS LIKE A COMMUNIST
Checkout my latest Substack post here: https://open.substack.com/pub/stephenshaiken/p/ron-desantis-is-a-communist-check?r=7amx5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
FIGHTING FOR REAL FREEDOM IN FLORIDA
DON’T POST THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Inage courtesy of The Forward DON’T POST THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS It’s bad for everybody. All wise traditions have the same prohibitions on murder, theft, lying, adultery. (If it’s too difficult to talk about gender or sexual orientation, how the hell can the teachers explain adultery?) Not all wise traditions hold that […]
MEATBALL DESANTIS RUNNING FROM MICKEY
This image was sent to me by FB friend Ben Banneker. As his fellow Republican Chris Christie said, how can Meatball face down Putin or Xi if he gets hid ass kicked by Mickey Mouse?
TRUMP VS DESANTIS: ROUND ONE
Much as I despise the man Trump dubbed “Ron Sanctimonious,” I doubt this is really him or even if it was, anything improper occurred. That’s because we all know no young woman ever wanted anything to do with Ron DeSantis. (Alex Jones or MTG might say he’s renting out actors to pose as his wife […]
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED ON 9/11
In memory of those who died on 9/11, including so many brave first responders. When America was attacked, members of Congress of both parties unified behind the President and the country, even though a mere nine months before, the closest election in U.S. history was decided by 500 plus votes in Florida and a controversial Supreme […]
DESANTIS PROVES ONCE AGAIN JOE SCARBOROUGH IS RIGHT ABOUT HIS OLD PARTY’S ANTISEMITISM
I published an earlier version of this post a year ago, after DeSantis had illegally removed from office twice-elected Jewish-American Hillsborough County States Attorney Andrew Warren. At the time, Meatball used an antisemitic trope-“George Soros bought prosecutor- which experts in antisemitism have repeatedly identified as an antisemitic trop, The renowned Jewish newspaper, The Forward, wrote […]
TAMPA’S WATERWORKS PARK AN URBAN TREASURE
Photo by Stephen Shaiken It’s not just our great sports teams that have put Tampa on the map these days and made it one of the most desirable places to live in the U.S. (Though skyrocketing housing prices and rents need to come down it we are to keep it up.) It isn’t just the […]
GOOD TEAM IN A BAD PARK
I am not close to being the baseball fan of years past, but the unique style of play of the Tampa Bay Rays has rekindled my interest. It helps that they’ve been a highly competitive team recently, at least up until very recently. Like most Tampeños, I’d love to see the Rays leave their horrible […]
MAKING JEWISH STUDENTS UNCOMFORTABLE IS OKAY IN TENNESSEE
Yahoo News ran an article about a school board in Tennessee that offers a course teaching “the Bible,” which is of course a Christian version favored by fundamentalists and Evangelicals. If anyone doubts the real intent is to force this religious dogma down everyone’s throats, read what the teacher recommends students do when they encounter […]