My father’s memory of his days scrapping with elements of Tampa’s mafia remain a frequent topic at family dinner conversations and other moments when something or someone suddenly prompts him. Lately, this occurs when either one of “those people” from that era, or perhaps a colleague from the police department, is featured in the Tampa…… Continue reading Not Forgettinaboutit—The Mafia
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The Super License
You may have noticed my vitriolic tendencies toward the media’s misplaced sensationalisms regarding death and injury statistics. To paraphrase a Star Trek adage, the death of a few outweighs the deaths of the many. Not that one person’s death is any less important than another’s, no matter how it happened. Death and injury (we’re talking…… Continue reading The Super License