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Commentary

CNN Confessions: Not Quite Oprah After the Show

June 13, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 12 Comments

What was supposed to be a leisurely interview on Saturday afternoon turned into its own Deepwater Horizon blowout.

Catch FlaglerLive on CNN

June 12, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 6 Comments

I’ll be on CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield during the 3 p.m. hour discussing the oil spill’s impact on local governments, and particular local school districts.

How the Chamber’s Tax Proposal Undermines Schools, Cities and the County

June 6, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 6 Comments

Ignoring leery voters and a building bust, the Flagler chamber’s tax for commercial construction is jeopardizing local governments’ own urgent tax referendums in 2011 and 2012.

Hanging With Manatees

June 3, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 4 Comments

It’s not just seeing manatees upclose alone that moves you. It’s seeing their injuries, and their utter helplessness.

Graduations from God to America

May 30, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 1 Comment

Graduation speeches are part of the American habit of reinvention. They should be provocative and revealing, even if we don’t all agree with the message.

Pryor to Class of 2010: “Take Your Chance, Make Your Choice, Make Your Move”

May 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Citing William Jennings Bryan, Robert Frost and David Wilcox, Matanzas High School Principal Chris Pryor mixed anecdotes and metaphor in his last words of advice to the Class of 2010.

From Times Square to Jacksonville:
When Terrorism Is a Double-Standard

May 23, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 9 Comments

When the target of terrorism is recognizably American, it’s a national crisis. When the target of terrorism is a mosque in Jacksonville, nobody cares. Why is that?

Why Tea Parties Are More Bunkers than Bunker Hill

May 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The tea party’s booting out of Utah Sen. Robert Bennett from his state’s GOP primary, despite Bennett’s extreme conservative credentials, is emblematic of a movement in the grip of its own delusions.

Florida’s Abortion Follies:
When Lawmakers Are Sexual Predators

May 16, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 9 Comments

Jurgen Klauke autoerotic projetions

Florida’s latest anti-abortion legislation shows that sexual predators aren’t just the monsters who assault and rape. They can also be men who control women and girls by subordinating them their moral assumptions, which usually have immoral results.

A Musical Journey in the Key of Kindness

May 16, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Caren Umbarger, who replaces Jonathan May as the new artistic director of the Flagler Youth Orchestra, relates her musical origins and philosophy.

Flagler Beach Manager Search:
Carpetbaggers Need Not Apply

May 16, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Art Woosley, a Flagler Beach activist, argues that the next city manager should be a local resident with heart and interests in line with the city’s.

Socialism, Capitalism, and Other Fallen Stock

May 9, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 4 Comments

Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads

We can rail about socialism’s evil and worship capitalism all we like. It won’t get us out of the hole we spent the last 30 years digging. History and Adam Smith are better guides.

Boners for Business

May 8, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The Pat Rice era began at the $218-a-year News-Journal in late April. That’ll buy you a whole lot of Twinkies.

Heather Beaven’s WTF Campaign

May 6, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 5 Comments

heather beaven wtf campaign

Democrat Beaven’s congressional campaign against John Mica so far is shoddy, vague, and lacking transparency.

We Need Drilling. Just Not Where You Think.

May 2, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 4 Comments

offshore drilling huntington beach california oil rigs and sunbathers

The BP rig disaster will spill more oil in the Gulf of Mexico than the Exxon Valdez did in Prince William Sound. Time to cap the follies of cheering for more offshore oil-drilling in Florida.

Obama-Leno: No Correspondence

May 2, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 1 Comment

How even Barack Obama is funnier than Jay Leno. Then again, it’s no contest. Tales from the Correspondents dinner.

The Uses of Poetry

April 30, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Reading poetry, Dave Riegel argues in his latest column, has a practical value in the board room, on the campaign trail, in advertising, and anywhere popular art is consumed.

The Liberation of Charlie Crist

April 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Charlie Crist, never foreign to transgression, transgressed what’s left of the Republican Party, which has no room for moderates.

In Alabama, They Speak Ass

April 29, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 3 Comments

Tim James Alabama Republican Candidate for English Only

Alabama Republican candidate Tim James pledge to ban non-English driving tests, in a campaign video, is xenophobic mob appeal.

Brian McMillan’s Stick Figures

April 25, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

The Palm Coast Observer’s managing editor has a new blog full of tiny jewels of witty wisdom from our most precious philosophers.

Arizona Boots Up Brown Immigrants’ Guantanamo

April 25, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 21 Comments

The virus that led to Arizona’s anti-immigration law has crossed Arizona’s borders into the rest of America. Its carrier is as white as a bed sheet and by far the greater threat to America’s character than anything that ever crossed the Rio Grande.

Nashville Surrenders to Grab Your Crotch Country

April 23, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

T. Paige Dalporto, a West Virginia songwriter, pains his way through the Academy of Country Music Awards and mourns his old country gone pop.

Brett Copeland Star Spangles at School Board

April 20, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

Brett Copeland, a senior at Matanzas High School, switched from violin to voice to sing the national anthem at a school board meeting.

Legislature’s Roadkill: Raiding Trust Funds

April 20, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The Florida Legislature has balanced the budget by taking money from the transportation trust fund. It’s a short-sighted solution with dire consequences, argues Mark Wilson, president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce.

Students Fail. Cut Teachers’ Pay. Seriously?

April 19, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The thinking behind Senate Bill 6 is rooted in the idea that teachers cause students’ success or failure. That’s wrong, argues Dave Riegel, a high school principal.

Sara Palin’s Cafeteria Christianity

April 18, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Russell A. Pizer gives the once and future queen of reactionary Republicans a lesson in the Declaration of Independence and other spelling tips.

Why Is Flagler Being Mealy-Mouthed Over KKK Fliers?

April 18, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 8 Comments

Redneck Shop and Klan Museum, Lauren, SC

How easy to pick at an obvious target like the KKK, and easier still to do it in language that commits to nothing more than fortune-cookie bromides. How meaningless too.

Call Me a Tea Party Fan

April 15, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 10 Comments

Maybe not a fan of the tea partiers’ ideas. But definitely a fan of their sincerity and, yes, eloquence. Let’s bust some stereotypes.

Tea Party Circus Is In Town

April 15, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

I’m about to head out to Palm Coast Parkway and Old Kings Road where the tea party folks are holding their latest rally against (fill in the blanks).

Health Reform’s Bigger Windfalls for Florida

April 12, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

while there are still many unknowns about how the new federal health-care laws will be implemented, Florida stands to do very well financially and socially.

Conklin to Crist: Children Are More Than Test Scores

April 11, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Charlie Crist and Colleen Conklin

Flagler School Board member Colleen Conklin urges Gov. Charlie Crist to veto Senate Bill 6, which she terms “political” and “inappropriate” for children’s education.

Stolz to Crist: I Am Tired of Teachers

April 11, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Peter Stolz, a former teacher from Palm Coast, urges Gov. Charlie Crist to sign Senate Bill 6 into law.

Farewell to I-95

April 6, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

This morning’s commute, from home to government complex, was 3.1 miles, most of it unimpeded even by Palm Coast’s reputedly unbearable traffic.

“Pacific” a Sequel To Exalt War Passions

April 4, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

Hiroshima After the Bombing

The Pacific war was not a sequel. It is here, with all the hand-me-down fatigues of war sequels.

Jonathan May, Conductor of Youths’ Fugues

March 14, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 2 Comments

Jonathan May, conductor of the Flagler Youth Orchestra and other Orchestras

To perform with Jonathan was to love him, and to love him was to live the joy that was his musical offering.

Unveiling Stereotypes at Stetson University

February 14, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 1 Comment

Undergraduates not used to wearing their religion on their sleeve, at least not Islam, wore one not even their own around their face–Islam’s most explosive symbol.

Taking Back America–from Tea Party Phonies

February 8, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 3 Comments

tea party phonies

If Thomas Jefferson had heard Sarah Palin or Marco Rubio, he’d have had to ask how such a smart country would put up with such an obvious phonies and loons.

What If Tim Tebow Had Been Aborted?

January 31, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

By linking abortion with a life fully lived, Tebow is pretending to tell us something about the mysteries of life’s origins that nobody knows — not Tebow, not Pope Benedict, not Stephen Hawking, not my pet ferret, if I had one.

Weimar Germany’s Shadow Creep on Main Street

January 28, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Philip A. Farruggio argues that the United States is forgetting the lessons of 1930s Germany–and Sinclair Lewis’ prophetic warnings–at its own risk.

He Had His Moments, But…

January 28, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

There’s too much reaching for the old magic–which is just the problem: this lunge for “magic,” this desire to make the impossible real, when it should be the other way around.

Americans Owe More to Haiti Than They Know

January 15, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

Well beyond earthquake relief, an American commitment to independence and democracy in Haiti would not be a favor, a gift or an indulgence. It would be the down payment of an incalculable debt long overdue.

Is This Harry Reid Cartoon Offensive?

January 15, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 2 Comments

The Omaha World Herald’s sanctimony over a skin-tone cartoon is more offensive than Harry Reid’s misjudgment.

Prohibition’s Binge of Sanctimony

January 4, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

Carlsberg bottle and prohibition

On the history and stupidity of Prohibition, the 13-year binge of sanctimony that a minority of eugenics fans and anti-German racists imposed on the majority.

My Ten Predictions for 2010

December 29, 2009 | Pierre Tristam | 3 Comments

“All prophesies are wrong, therefore this one will be wrong,” Orwell said. So here are mine for the coming year of our blogs, 2010.

Brighthouse, Worst Company in Florida

December 27, 2009 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

Brighthouse puts a happy face on its business. For customers of cable and internet service, Brighthouse can be a miserable experience. If it’s customer care you’re looking for, it ain’t there.

A Health Care Deal out of Arab Bazars

December 20, 2009 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

For all the missteps, for all of Obama’s prevarications and defanged tactics, the end result will (should the bill pass) vindicate whatever he did, however he did it. What was bound to be a colossal battle turned out to unravel the worst and little of the best about America.

The 10 Most Ridiculous Commandments

December 11, 2009 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

In order for any Republican candidate to receive support from the Republican National Committee, they have to sign off on eight out of 10 newly-mandated, government-approved, “conservative” principles.

Initial Unemployment Claims Up 17,000

December 10, 2009 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

Weekly unemployment claims are up 17,000 from the previous week’s unrevised figure of 457,000. The 4-week moving average was 473,750, a decrease of 7,750 from the previous week.

Rev-Up Time for the Flagler Youth Orchestra

December 7, 2009 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

They’re practicing as I’m writing–the Flagler Youth Orchestra’s four music teachers (Jonathan May, Jack Jeffe, Justin McCulough and Linda VavBuren–in preparation for tonight’s inaugural concert of the new season: the quartet is putting on a few pieces of its own for the occasion, including, from what I hear, a Christmassy jaunt or two. It’s barely […]

Soldiers, Kids Reunite, but Cameras Exploit

December 6, 2009 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

In one video, Army Master Sgt. Joseph Myers walks unannounced into his 10-year-old daughter Hanna’s classroom in Texas after a long deployment. In split seconds Hanna’s expression goes from blank to shock to joy to meltdown. She barely manages to make it toward her father’s embrace. In another, at a Jacksonville Jaguars football game last […]

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