Michael Mooney

SlutWalk South Florida Hitting the Streets in Early 2012

​The SlutWalk movement is finally coming to South Florida.SlutWalk South Florida has started to develop its online presence, hand out fliers, and begin planning demonstrations to curb sexual assaults and the blame sometimes associated with sexual-assault victims.There's no precise date set for Sou ... More >>

Guerdwich Montimere, AKA Jerry Joseph, Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault After Posing as Teen Basketball Star

Montimere came clean after posing as Jerry Joseph.​Guerdwich Montimere, the former Dillard High School basketball player who moved to Texas when he was 22 and reinvented himself as a 16-year-old, came clean in the legal sense yesterday.He pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault of a child - ... More >>

Reader: Jail Time is Nothing Compared to Animal Testing

Amerijet will continue taking off with monkeys in their cargo bay.​Today's comment of the day comes from an article we posted earlier in the week called: Amerijet Won't Stop Shipping Research Monkeys.In it Juice writer Michael J. Mooney published a letter that Amerijet wrote to the president of AR ... More >>

Antonio Balta Denied Clemency, Advocates Turn To Rick Scott

Michael J. Mooney​Advocates and supporters of Antonio Balta, the man sentenced to 20 years in prison for allowing his daughter to die in a hot car as he gambled, were given sad news over this holiday season: The same clemency board that voted to pardon long-deceased rocker Jim Morrison chose not t ... More >>

Avoid Child Hyperthermia: Five Things That Resemble Children Trapped in Cars

Flickr: sean dreilinger​Yesterday at New Times we received a humorous incident report from the Broward Sheriff's Office media relations. The report stated that someone had reported seeing a toddler locked in a car in Weston. But when an officer arrived, he found: "The report of a toddler in a ... More >>

Thanksgiving Day Parlor Trick: How to Swallow a Tablespoon of Cinnamon

Michael J. MooneyWeapons of mass destruction.​You and your family have just finished the first of four courses on Thanksgiving Day. You can smell the rest of the food, but it's not time yet. So you're stuck in a warm room with the people you love, but may not get to see too often. It could be one ... More >>

Juice Scores Some Bling at Regional Journos' Conference

Flickr​A quick thank you to the judges of the Green Eyeshade Awards, a journalism contest that named the Juice the third-best blog at this past week's annual banquet. The contest is open to media in 11 states in the Southeast. This particular category prized "outstanding commentary or reporting in ... More >>

The Best Bumper Stickers From the Independence Day Tea Party in Fort Lauderdale

​Everyone knows the best way to tell the world how you feel about something is through a funnyish, quasi-offensive sticker or magnet attached to the back of your automobile. Whether it's which nutbag pundits you like, which candidates you plan to vote for, who you think invented Christmas, or whic ... More >>

Update on the Haitian Boy Receiving Treatment for the Massive Tumor on His Neck

Michael J. MooneyEsthelhomme Peterson​ Last week we brought the story of Esthelhomme Peterson ("Peter"), the 12-year-old Haitian boy brought to the U.S. to get treatment for the massive growth on his neck. His transportation and treatment were arranged by a coalition that included Sen. George LeMi ... More >>

Video: Haitian Boy with Cancer and His Mother Talk About Their Trip to the U.S.

Michael J. MooneyPeterson Esthelhomme​The 12-year-old Haitian boy who was brought to the U.S. to treat the malignant tumor on his neck was in good spirits this morning. Through a translator, Esthelhomme Peterson said he was in a lot of pain during the trip here, but that he was feeling much better ... More >>

Sights From the Soggy Tax Day Tea Party in Fort Lauderdale

Michael J. Mooney​Despite the rain, the threat of intentionally misspelling infiltrators, other silly-but-hot conservative options within driving distance, and some intense taxpayer-funded security (what we like to call irony), hundreds of people showed up at yesterday's Tea Party at the federal c ... More >>

Would You Kill Someone For a Chicken Sandwich?

Michael J. MooneyHe's not dead, just dead tired.​ At noon on Tuesday, there was one man waiting, seated quietly on the curb outside the new Chick-Fil-A on US-1 in Pompano Beach. By 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday there were already 20 more people. By 6:00 a.m. there were nearly 200 people waiting in line j ... More >>

Seeing Capitalism: A Love Story with a Real-Life Capitalist

​Near the beginning of Michael Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, the filmmaker calls upon Wallace Shawn, an actor/writer friend of his, to explain our economic system in terms he could explain, presumably because Shawn is one of the more knowledgeable people Moore knows when it ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of October 1, 2009

Happy Canada Day, Leslie Nielsen! (I'm NOT Stalking You)

photo by Alan Light The man, the legend. I'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone in South Florida a Happy Canada Day! Especially to South Florida's most famous Canadian, Leslie Nielsen. I love Canadian-Americans. And my all-time favorite living Canadian-American celebrity has g ... More >>

Letters From the Issue of June 18, 2009

Letters from the Issue of June 4, 2009

Letters From the Issue of April 23, 2009

Teabag Gags And Other Important Democratic Functions

All this talk on the news about the right-wing "teabagging" protests is cracking me up. In fact I'm starting to think that the evil liberal media talked the national frustrati into taking on that moniker for their movement as a juvenile prank. (Locally, our own Michael Mooney mixed it up w ... More >>

And Now a "Fair and Balanced" a Report From Yesterday's Tea Party

Flickr user: Sweet CarouselHey, remember that delightful Coral Springs lady who took a shine to Sarah Palin, launched a blog for her, and -- perhaps because this was so patently absurd -- received some media coverage for it? And then some media coverage about that media coverage? Well, you won't bel ... More >>

Letters From the Issue of April 9, 2009

John Holland's Swan Song

-- John Holland this morning gives us a fairly in-depth look at Mutual Benefits' Colombian drug cartel connections. My favorite line: "The court records don't make clear whether Mutual Benefits was an active participant in the money laundering or a pawn."  Joel Steinger is nobody's p ... More >>

Letters From the Issue of February 5, 2009

Gators Binge, Purge, Intend to Repeat

For an encore, Tim Tebow will rescue a kitten from the top floor of a burning skyscraper.Judging by the large number of blue and orange-adorned ticket holders puking in the parking lot, it was great to be a Gator last night. The Super Bowl of college football featured jets and fireworks and gazillio ... More >>

Rudy Giuliani Will Be on Time for His Inauguration Jan. 20

On the New Times newsroom's Wall o' Deviance, beneath photographs of long-gone staffers cavorting with strippers, you will find the red-white-and-blue 2008 calendar of Rudy Giuliani, which he modestly called "Countdown to Victory." The calendar warns of a slow march toward a dystopian American futur ... More >>

Tonight: Live Blogging from the BCS National Championship Game

If you happen to have an extra grand or so to blow on a football game, you probably won't need to come here for my bitter blog posts, live from the BCS Championship. But if you live in the same country as the rest of us non-yacht owners, you can get everything you need right here. A bit of backgrou ... More >>

Florida Home to Fresh-Squeezed... Handguns?

A study published last month by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group lead by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, says that not only do lax gun laws lead to more murders, higher crime rates, and more law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, guns from those states are used more often in ... More >>

Letters from the issue of January 1, 2009

What Is Wrong With This Picture?

 If there was a rash of Dolphins-related suicides around 10:45 p.m. last night, one local TV station certainly won't be reporting on it. That's because Channel 7, WSVN, hates the Miami Dolphins and doesn't care if the team's fans kill themselves. Or maybe some intern just made a horrible mis ... More >>

'80s Icon Will Be Immortal As Long As the Former Greg White Is Alive

Yeah Juicians, Teen Wolf is the best thing to ever happen in American cinema. That's a given. And apparently, when Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Greg White legally changed his name to Stylez G. White as a tribute to the buddy character in the 1985 Michael J. Fox Rupert "Stiles" Stilinski vehicl ... More >>

Nobody Knocks Out Glen Johnson, Unless Comedy's Involved

In this week's print edition of The Juice, I wrote about Glen Johnson, a veteran South Florida boxer who's spent most of his 15-year career facing off against the biggest names in the sport. Because he's not punching police officers, barking at a judge, or telling anyone he wants to eat their c ... More >>

Because A Regular Wedding Wouldn't Be Uncomfortable Enough

Love is a beautiful thing, especially when it happens 180 feet above a casino parking lot. As if the issue of marriage weren't contentious enough in Florida with all the votes, rulings and appeals, now a straight couple from Boca Raton has decided to flaunt their legal ability to wed in the cl ... More >>

Plaxico Burress: Happiness Is a Warm Gun -- And Warm Weather

Hey, South Florida, I know a six-foot-five, 230-pound troubled wide receiver who needs a hug. Come on. By South Florida troublemaker standards, Plaxico Burress is a pussycat. Can we keep him? Huh, can we? There aren't too many places with open arms for the big guy these days. On top of the felo ... More >>

Dolphins Fans Don't Suck Either

The people who love the Dolphins are having a pretty good year, too. At least if you judge by the recent totals in fan voting for this year's NFL Pro Bowl. Four, that's right, FOUR Miami Dolphins are in first place in their respective positions in on-line fan balloting. This compared to zero, that' ... More >>

Lantana-Based White Rights Group Says It's Not Racist, Really; It's Just Lookin' Out for Whitey

The American Association of White Americans is using the election of the first black president to tell the country a few things about its American organization of Americans. In America. In two open letters addressed to the "Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Senate Wash, DC," the Lantana-based a ... More >>

Letters for October 30 - November 5, 2008

Letters for October 23-29, 2008

Letters for October 2-8, 2008

Letters for August 14-20, 2008

Letters for July 17-23, 2008

Finally... Florida

A rogue state meets presidential candidates who pine for its fickle heart

Feelin' the Freak

That Redline Frame of Mind 

Letters for April 17-23, 2008

Letters for April 10-16, 2008

Letters for March 20-26, 2008

Letters for March 13-19, 2008

Letters for February 14-20, 2008

Big Wind in Boca

The Party Was Over Before It Began

Letters for January 24-30, 2008

Letters for December 6-12, 2007