Posts in category Key West Lou

KEY WEST LOU / FINALLY GEORGIA INDICTS TRUMP Finally, Georgia indicts Trump! A 98 page indictment listing 19 defendants and 41 criminal counts. The charge …

KEY WEST LOU / TRUMP’S CORRUPTIVE CHARM OVERWHELMING It was the Iowa Fair this weekend. No other candidate attracted as many supporters as Donald Trump. …

KEY WEST LOU / A MISSTATEMENT BECOMES FACT…..A PERSON OF HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE BASICALLY UNKNOWN In my last blog, I made reference to the fact that …

KEY WEST LOU / NEW PEOPLE, GREAT SUSHI, EXCELLENT FRIES Oh, what a happy hour it was! Yesterday at the Thai Island Restaurant. At the …

KEY WEST LOU / I RODE ON STREETCARS On this day in 1885, the first commercially operated electric streetcar in America opened in Baltimore. I …

KEY WEST LOU / DE SANTIS…..TODAY SHAKESPEARE, TOMORROW THE BIBLE Today Shakespeare, tomorrow the Bible. The Bible teaches us. Indoctrinates us in a sense. DeSantis …

KEY WEST LOU / TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND A KICK IN THE PANTS Words of wisdom from the mouth of Teddy Roosevelt: “If you could kick …

KEY WEST LOU / HOW SOON WILL JUDGE TANYA S. CHUTKAN TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS The crossroad is being reached early in the …

KEY WEST LOU / HAPPY SUNDAY! Happy Sunday! Square watermelons? Yes, in Japan. A real and common part of Japanese life. A specific company grows …

KEY WEST LOU / JOHN KEATS…..A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER For some reason, John Keats’ poetic line “A thing of beauty is …

KEY WEST LOU / WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND What goes around, comes around. Oh, the truth the words speak! When the shoe is on …

KEY WEST LOU / TRUMP FEDERALLY INDICTED AGAIN Trump was federally indicted again yesterday. He was charged with conspiring against the U.S. Another reckoning for …

KEY WEST LOU / 14 YEAR OLDS BARTENDING Another brilliant Republican state legislature idea. Legalizing bartending by 14 year olds. Several states are moving to …

KEY WEST LOU / WOMEN AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION Surprising data regarding alcohol consumption and women. More women in the U.S. are drinking themselves to death. …

Tropic Sprockets / The Graduate (1967)  By Ian Brockway Mike Nichols’ “The Graduate” (1967) is a nearly perfect film. [Check Tropiccinema.com for showtimes and trailer.] …

KEY WEST LOU / HE WHO PAYS THE FIDDLER CALLS THE TUNE Truth be told, he who pays the fiddler calls the tune. Trump has …

KEY WEST LOU / THE TOWN THAT HUNG AN ELEPHANT An elephant in the room! A sad story involving the tiny town of Erwin, Tennessee. …

KEY WEST LOU / MEATBALLS AND POLENTA Meatballs and polenta! A meal fit for a King! I introduced Steve Thompson to polenta yesterday at Rosstica’s. …

KEY WEST LOU / A BAD TRUMP REVEALS HIMSELF I finished reading Maggie Haberman’s Confidence Man yesterday. Took me 7 months. Book long. Five hundred …

KEY WEST LOU / CHRISTMAS IN JULY Joke of the day: Why did Santa Claus get a parking ticket? He parked his sleigh in a …