Watching Steve Shield talk about the ways we could start imposing new laws regulating hedges on Longboat Key could be the new legal alternative to LSD.

When Longboat Key’s beauty slips into the sunset, we can all just droop our heads as we stare from the end of our newly constructed groin that will be resemble a horrendous scar on the forehead of a otherwise perfect face.

And I hope the Commission takes seriously what Rajewski and his supporters are saying about stopping the push to diminish and weaken our building codes in the guise of offering commercial support or clarity.

The shrill squawking of electoral politics on Longboat Key has reached new heights of histrionics. All we hear are the scripts of those with axes to grind and the vested interests. In other words, as in all things, when the group and mob mentality gets involved, all rational thinking halts and we get these kind of emotional utterances:

Whether Rajewski’s knee-jerk protectionism or Brenner’s businesses assertiveness is the right tone for our town is yet to be seen.

Let’s not mince words this week and take a look at two larger swirling issues that the town is dealing with

Commissioner Jack Duncan said it best the other week: “I have discovered Longboat Key is full of type-A personalities and everyone of them has an opinion on what needs to be done.”

And often, out of a stupid idea, comes something with legs. Kind of the way an intelligent and wonderful child can be born of an unplanned poorly thought out drunken roll in the white sand.

We are willing to ignore, twist, bend and break our rules for certain VIP applicants, while the bottom feeders get treated as if they have no standing or significance — they are the Rosa Parks of our business community.

A longtime friend of Longboat Key, a loyal and loving wife of more than 60 years, and a mother to two loving children, Hazel Lenobel, passed away Thursday evening.