Success Looks Like…

Posted by mimi on May 3, 2009 in dish | 0 comments …this fabulous young woman, who is now a proud graduate of the University of Florida. Prior to joining the Gator Nation, I taught her in my AP English class. She started hyphenating her last name with mine at the tops of her papers and calling me “Mom,” so of course, “Mom” was in the O’Connell Center this morning taking pictures and beaming alongside her...
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Classy Dame: Jill Biden

Posted by mimi on Jan 30, 2009 in dish | 1 comment Dr. Jill Biden, our new “Second Lady,” really classes up the joint. Since her husband’s election to the Vice Presidency, she could stop working and focus on hostessing or whatever the wives of the Vice Presidents do. Instead, she fought to keep working as a college professor of English. And not at Georgetown, or American University, or some other high-dollar campus. She took a...
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Knock It Off With the Chainsaws Already

Posted by mimi on Dec 9, 2008 in dish | 1 comment This week’s cover of Time sure pegged my Pissed-Off-O-Meter. The unsmiling woman in the photo is Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools. She is one no-nonsense broad. She’s determined to make sweeping (hence the broom) changes in the D.C. system, damn the torpedoes.More power to her. The public school system in this country is, let’s just admit it,...
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Clearly, He’s Never Been in a Real School

Posted by mimi on Sep 4, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Several years ago, the spineless weenies at The Orlando Sentinel decided that Doonesbury was way too political for the comics page, and they shifted it to the editorial section instead. A couple of years ago, a new crop of spineless weenies decided that they were being unfair to the meat-eating red staters ’round these parts and went a-huntin’ for a “conservative” comic...
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