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Facebook Page Reveals FAU Advisor Fears Muslim Law, Gay Rights, Has Extreme Right-Wing Views UPDATED

Roxanna Trinka is President/CEO of a company called Baseline Engineering. She's also a Director of the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University, an advisor to the school's College of Engineering, and served on Palm Beach County's Criminal Justice Commission. It's a free country. So there's no ... More >>

Waafrika at Empire Stage: Be Prepared to Squirm

Jack Seiler for Governor? Why He Shouldn't Run

Why Jack Seiler Should Pretty Pretty Please Not Run For Governor

Over the last few weeks, as the political yammering mercifully subsided and we sank into the off-season of national intrigue and drama, out of the quiet rose the name Jack Seiler. That's because Fort Lauderdale's mayor is mulling a run at governor. And though that 2014 election may seem as distant a ... More >>

Jeb Bush Favored Over Marco Rubio For President, According to Poll

The election was literally six days ago (well, okay, two days ago if you count Florida), and Florida Republicans are butthurt about the results. So the fine folks at Public Policy Polling thought it would be a neat idea to exploit that GOPer melancholy and the infinite sadness, and ask them to look ... More >>

Allen West Loses to Patrick Murphy; Fox News to Gain a Crazy Person

It's a sad day for Commie hunters and fans of men who force their wives to have buttsex everywhere -- and kind of a bittersweet morning for the Pulp this morning. Several sources are reporting that Allen West has lost his bid for reelection to Patrick Murphy for Florida's 18th District.(But West mo ... More >>

Donald Trump, Birther and Noted Philanthropist, Calls for a Revolution

Donald Trump was a tad butthurt last night when it was announced that non-American-born Barack HUSSEIN Obama had won reelection. This, despite the world-shattering challenge Trump laid out for Obummer when he graciously offered a $5 million donation to charity if the so-called president released hi ... More >>

Republicans Already Using Hurricane Sandy as an Excuse in Case Romney Loses

Looks like the GOPers are all ready to go with their postelection TALKING POINT in case their robot Mitt Romney should lose the election. Because the Benghazi SuperSecret Governmental Conspiracy Coverup of the 22nd Century thing hasn't worked and because Romney's supposed momentum has slowed some ... More >>

Rick Scott's Decision to Opt Out of Medicaid Could Cost Hospitals Billions

Rick Scott's decision to opt out of participating in the expansion of the Medicaid health insurance program in Florida could cost public hospitals billions and billions of dollars. This according to a new study by the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (whom we're sure wil ... More >>

Yup, the Sun-Sentinel Endorsed Mitt Romney

The Sun-Sentinel has come out and decided to endorse the candidate who thinks Syria is Iran's route to the sea. That's right. The paper that is owned by JP Morgan Chase and some hedge funds, thinks that child molesters are a riot and are run by a dude who declared bankruptcy has officially endorsed ... More >>

Dinesh D'Souza's "2016: Obama's America": The Five Most Hilarious Lowlights

Politics Are A Drag

Obama Coming to Hollywood; You Can Attend for a Mere Giant Pile of Cash

The LGBT Leadership Council is hosting an "LGBT Campaign Briefing and Reception" at Hollywood's Westin Diplomat Hotel, and you can still grab a ticket. Indeed, you can see President Barack Obama, the leader of the free world and famous Kenyan socialist, for the rock-bottom price of $2,500.

Ten and a Half Important People Paid Less Than Palm Beach County Superintendent Wayne Gent

​The Palm Beach County School District approved a $225,000-a-year contract for Superintendent Wayne Gent last week. Gent was named interim superintendent last year after parents booted Art Johnson from the spot; now he's got the permanent gig. Oh -- and another $66,000-per-year pension that he get ... More >>

Circumcision and AIDS: Harvard Doctors Respond to Criticism

​Could a whole coalition of highly accomplished, super educated doctors and researchers -- the ones who work at and advise the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Harvard School of Public Health -- all be wrong? Or are their critics hinderin ... More >>

Birthers Convinced Marco Rubio Is a Cuban Citizen, and Yes... Obama's Still a Kenyan

Sen. Marco Rubio​Pass the tinfoil; we've got more hats to build.Sen. Marco Rubio is a hot pick for the vice presidential spot on the ticket of several GOP presidential candidates, but according to the birther lab, he's not eligible to be president or vice president because he's not a "natural-born ... More >>

Herman Cain is Black Enough to Be the First Actual Black President, Rush Limbaugh Says

​Most of the time, Rush Limbaugh says things that are highly partisan. Sometimes, he'll say something profoundly stupid -- which is what he did today from his West Palm Beach headquarters.Limbaugh, who can apparently calculate levels of blackness in presidents and presidential candidates, was ... More >>

President Obama Turns 50 Today; Let's Recount His Most Magical Moments

via Photobucket user bluejessamine​President Barack Obama turns 50 years old today -- according to both his "Kenyan" birth certificate and the real one -- and policy decisions aside, it's been a magical ride.That's right, magical. The president has managed to invent a few new states, made fun of N ... More >>

Literacy Becomes Historical Melodrama in "The First Grader"

"African Cats" Gives "March of the Penguins" Treatment to Kings of the Jungle

Angry Catholics Denounce Editorial; Call Writer a Homosexual Bigot

Witch-hunting manual commissioned by Pope Innocent VIII.​On Monday, I published this rebuttal to an editorial by Archbishop Wenski of Miami, in which the Archbishop argued against the legalization of gay marriage.I didn't think my points were especially controversial. Archbishop Wenski suggested t ... More >>

Exotic Meat for Sale: Lion, Rattlesnake and More

Laine Doss Lion - It's what's for dinner.​Earlier this week, we told you about James Jablon -- a man who's living with lions for a month, and has said he will even eat what they eat. (We gave some advice about that.) Well, here's some info for those who would rather eat a lion than live wi ... More >>

As Florida Governor, Rick Scott Will "Look Into" the Obama Birth Certificate

Flickr: togrossRick Scott's not too proud to pander.​In the weeks before the Republican primary, it must be tempting to pander to the wingnuts who actually believe that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. Too tempting, it seems, for gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott, who fielded a question this week ... More >>

Do Florida Democrats Have Nefarious Plans to Win Elections by Running Phony Tea Party Candidates?

Flickr: pereiravilleTea party activists line up outside an town hall in Orlando to jeer Alan Grayson.​It sounds like the sort of diabolically genius plot that usually comes from Republicans, but there's reason to wonder whether Florida Democrats have conspired to put tea party candidates on ballo ... More >>

Wake Up to Fresh Market Coffee

John Linn​I'm a coffee fanatic. But, like Jimmy, I refuse to drink "shit." Insta-coffee? No thanks. Folgers? Please. Nearly anything preground? Step back with that, son.Yes, when it comes to coffee, I have some distinct preferences. I like quality, whole roasted beans. I like them ground fresh bef ... More >>

Orly Taitz, at the Head of the "Birther" Movement, Has Her Love Life Displayed in Court

Subterranean Finds

More recent releases from below the surface.

Gaia Ristorante: The Full Story

As Short Order reported last week, Gaia Ristorante, the latest venture of seasoned restaurateur Tom Billante, has opened at 101 Ocean Drive (Hilton Bentley Hotel)-- which I erroneously cited as the site of Billante's last Ocean Drive venue, ViVi. In fact, Prime Italian has moved into that space, and ... More >>

MTV Hosts First Ever African Music Awards

As I was cruising the blogosphere over the weekend, I came across an interesting story that definitely caught me by surprise. MTV, home to all things exploitive and pop, just held their first annual African Music Awards in Abuja, Nigeria this past Saturday. It's a move that could bolster more visibi ... More >>

Toumast

Ishumar (Real World)

Heart of Darkness

Great white hunters get jungle fever at the Leopard Lounge

Shades of Truth

Does Barack Obama embroider his own history for political effect?

Funky Fresh

A white leading man in a black movie? That is something new.

Future Looks So Bright

Mike Jones gets set for the jet set

Feeling Arie

India.Arie

Keeping It Reel

FLIFF documentaries capture the bizarre and the banal

Low Yield

The Constant Gardener ripens into a distasteful thriller

Scratch-Your-Head Mysterious

What's going on here? It's all about radical transformations and the peculiar in the everyday

Burning Spear

Best Swimming Pool

Jefferson at Young Circle

Fixin' to Die

My Life Without Me strums lively chords in the face of death

Fuji Film

Photos of one of Earth's most photogenic hills

It's Electric!

MoDS opens an electrifying exhibit

Around the World in 180 Days

Kids explore the continents without leaving their neighborhoods

Letters for March 27, 2003

A Hate-Love Relationship

Red Alert

Terrorism on the East Coast: It was predicted

Bones of Contention

The battle for the soul of the Graves Museum isn't over yet, and Gypsy Graves herself is back in the trenches

Dark Journey

I Dreamed of Africa

Night & Day

Night & Day

August 13 - 19, 1998