At this moment, we have no idea what happened (or didn’t) when a cab driver crashed into a pack of bicyclists on the MacArthur Causeway. At this writing, police are still out there in the eastbound lanes with the Checker Taxi, its windshield shattered and caved in, several twisted bike frames under its front bumper. [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Yellow Menace
August 24, 2008
Coffee Talk
August 11, 2008
The little coffee nook in our hotel in Charleston brewed serious coffee, an essential ingredient for any sort of brain power or personality before noon. So there I was, like a junkie for a fix.
“The strongest brew you have, please. Large.”
I’d come to expect lilting Scarlet O’Hara drawls in Charleston, but the pretty blonde woman at [...]
The Crewcible
August 4, 2008
The vote is in.
After delivering speeches that were alternately angry, indignant, accusatory, didactic and/or defiant, four Miami-Dade school board members voted to fire Superintendent Rudy Crew. Five others did not. And the superintendent himself delivered an in-their-face challenge to stop a “witch hunt” and “high-tech lynching”.
On face value, the vote was edge-of-your-seat close. But [...]
