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    March 15, 2012

    Florida Man Sues "Barack Hussein Obama," Citing Six Constitutional Amendments and Magna Carta, for Condemning His Property

    ​We're not usually in the business of passing on meandering, typewritten pro-se lawsuits filed in federal court, but this one contains such impassioned language and has obviously annoyed a judge so much that we're presenting it for your perusal.George May, who says he owned land in the "East Everg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Allen West Outraged That It's So Expensive to Buy Gas for His Hummer

    ​​Allen West is outraged that it's so expensive to keep gasoline in his car. It cost him $70 last night, he posted on Facebook today.Seventy bucks! An outrage! An aberration! Sarcasm aside, that's a TON of money to be paying for gas. Especially since West drives such a compact, fuel-efficient... ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    The World According to GOP Presidential Candidates

    ​In case you didn't notice -- between coverage of the Casey Anthony trial, Anthony Weiner, and Anderson Cooper probably wearing a skin-tight shirt -- CNN held a debate between hopeful Republican presidential candidates last night.You can guess what happened when Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Man Killed by Police During Miami's Urban Beach Week ID'ed in Boynton Beach Shooting

    Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeRaymond Herisse, in February 2010​Raymond Herisse -- the 22-year-old Boynton Beach man shot and killed over Memorial Day weekend on the streets of Miami Beach -- has been identified by Boynton Beach police as the gunman in a November shooting at a BP gas station.P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2011

    Tea Party? Try Tea Puppets

    I wonder if the nonsense-spewing Tea Partiers are really paying attention -- because if they are they'll know they're just puppets for war profiteers and the oil industry, which are one and the same. ​Case in point: A federal audit just found that former Florida Republican Party fin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    Florida's Political Fiction Slightly Stranger Than Truth; No Dead Drag Queens... Yet

    ​It's true -- and strange -- that Gov. Charlie Crist was good friends with the man behind the most colossal fraud in Broward County history, Scott Rothstein. But Fort Lauderdale author E.J. Bellew (a nom de plume) imagines a scenario in which a character based on Crist is haunted by a romantic his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Amateur Actors, Professional Thieves Perform a Lucrative Skit at Broward Gas Station

    Photo: BSOThis unidentified man collapsed dramatically, while his buddy grabbed the cash.​I guess it's too much to expect aspiring actors to make their money the honest way, by performing Hamlet on the sidewalk, where passersby could put a tip in a jar. Rather, they're plying their trade in a Nort ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Amateur Actors, Professional Thieves Perform a Lucrative Skit at Broward Gas Station

    Photo: BSOThis unidentified man collapsed dramatically while his buddy grabbed the cash.​I guess it's too much to expect aspiring actors to make their money the honest way, by performing Hamlet on the sidewalk, where passersby could put a tip in a jar. Rather, they're plying their trade in a North ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Does George LeMieux Think Obama Is Moses?

    Sen. George LeMieux is beginning to doubt whether this Barack Obama fellow really is the Chosen One. Because if he were, Obama would be standing on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, parting the sea. Oil to the left. Saltwater to the right. And his people (Americans) would be free.Seriously, what's w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Oil Spill an Occasion for a Political Game of Twister

    Sen. George LeMieux loves to invoke the future of his children among his reasons for wanting to slow down federal spending and shrink government. But if that really is what drives his political actions, doesn't the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico pose a far greater risk to his children's future? And ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Allen West Has Solution to Oil Spill: Ask an "Average American"

    Congressional candidate Allen West gave what might be his most absurd speech yet Friday at a meeting for a local chapter of Glenn Beck's 912 Project. Jump ahead to about the 3:30 mark. This is what you'll hear:The American way is that if you challenge us, we'll figure it out. I was flippi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2010

    Water… Sans Tar Balls!

    Congressional candidate Allen West gave what might be his most absurd speech yet Friday at a meeting for a local chapter of Glenn Beck's 912 Project. Jump ahead to about the 3:30 mark. This is what you'll hear:The American way is that if you challenge us, we'll figure it out. I was flippi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Palm Beach Billionaire Sailor Fights to Stop Wind Farm

    Flickr user: andjohanWind farm? NIMBY!​You'd think Bill Koch might be a fan of wind energy. The billionaire Palm Beach energy magnate made some of his fortune off eco-friendly geo-thermal and natural gas power plants. He's also an avid sailor who won the America's Cup in 1992.But it appears that w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    49 States Green With Envy Over Florida's Environmental Progress

    Radio Green Earth: Making the world safer for tree frogs​Bet you thought South Florida was a lot more likely to win accolades for "best strip malls" or "extra egregious decimation of natural wildlife" than for anything much greener than development dollars. But it turns out Florida is among the to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Got a Boat? Join Lawsuit vs. Giant Oil Companies

    In the past couple of years, boat owners Erick Kelesceny, John Egizi, and Todd Jessup kept on filling up their boats' gas tanks like they always had, with unleaded fuel. What they didn't realize was that, since at least 2006, the big oil companies had been taking a chemical called methyl tertiary-bu ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 18, 2008

    T.G.I.2009

    Let auld years be forgotten, tonight

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2008

    News-Press Lays Off 36

    Let auld years be forgotten, tonight

  • Dining

    January 3, 2008

    Angle of Descent

    That moaning sound? It's the ghost of César Ritz.

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2006

    A Bad Case of Gas At the Sun-Sentinel

    That moaning sound? It's the ghost of César Ritz.

  • Subtropical Life

    May 12, 2005

    Best Road to Avoid

    The Road to Perdition

  • Music

    December 23, 2004

    Against All Authority

    The Road to Perdition

  • News

    June 24, 2004

    Letters June 24-30, 2004

    A Journalistic Paragon of a Columnist

  • News

    January 8, 1998

    The Hunted

    Tracking animals in the Everglades is a tiring, maddening business. Which is just how a decreasing number of hunters like it.

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