by Runaway Slave | Oct 31, 2007 | Key West, Libertarian Curmudgeon
The Extremist congratulates senior writer Mark Howell of Key West’s Solares Hill newspaper. At a recent Florida Press Club Excellence in Journalism awards ceremony in Ft. Meyers the Press Club showed its superior taste and judgment by showering Mark with...
by Runaway Slave | Dec 7, 2006 | Bubble, Essays & Articles, Government, Hope, Key West, Libertarian Curmudgeon
One of the first things I noticed returning to Key West after almost a year in Central America is the number of shiny new public buildings in town. Almost all public buildings in Costa Rica have a humble, flaking-paint shabbiness about them that seems to assure the...
by Runaway Slave | Dec 3, 2003 | Drugs, Essays & Articles, Key West, Libertarian Curmudgeon, War On Drugs (WOD)
A recent KWPD SWAT team incident is the inspiration for today’s musing on man’s proclivity for destructive silliness in pursuit of noble ends. The most heavily armed of Key West’s Finest recently had the job of “taking down” victims of a KWPD “reverse sting.” The...
