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Obama Got It All Wrong With California Attorney General; Florida Attorney General Is Way Hotter

President Barack Obama called California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Thursday night to apologize for calling her "by far the best-looking attorney general in the country" during a Democratic National Committee fundraiser on Thursday afternoon in Atherton, California. And rightly so. Obama ... More >>

Clint Eastwood Talking to a Chair Is the Most Old-Person Thing to Ever Happen in Florida

There was a lot speculation on who the big supersecret "surprise" speaker at the RNC would be. Would it be Sarah Palin? Tim Tebow? A hologram of Ronald Reagan? Perhaps a James Polk puppet? WRONG. Because, as it turns out, the big secret surprise guest that got all the GOPers in a tizzy wa ... More >>

Fear and Loathing in Tampa: Your Gonzo Guide to the Republican National Convention

Terry Jones Supporting Chick-Fil-A in This Time of Crisis

Good news, Chick-Fil-A: Your attempts to rebuild public opinion of your company and its gay-hating president has another supporter: In addition to failed governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and failed senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum, both paragons of tolerance thems ... More >>

America's Petro-Terrorists

Wall Street and Washington conspire to destabilize the U.S.economy, one barrel of oil at a time.

Independence Hall Tea Party PAC Gets Its Website Really, Really Hacked (UPDATED)

UPDATE, 1:30 p.m.: Got in touch with the president of the PAC. He said he was upset. Added comment to the end of the story.A small New Jersey-based political action committee had its website torn to little, vulgar shreds last night by lunatics who appear to have come from the popular internet messag ... More >>

Allen West "Willing and Ready" to Be Vice President

​When asked about a vice presidential nod by CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien this morning, Congressman Allen West that he is "always willing and ready to serve my country in whatever capacity that the American people would desire.""As far as the vice president thing, you know, who knows what the future ... More >>

Food Fights: Tiger Woods and the Curious Incident of the Dawg

​A 31-year-old man threw a hot dog at Tiger Woods at yesterday's golf tournament at CordeValle in San Martin, California, as he ran toward the seventh green. The motive is unclear: perhaps a phallic reference to Woods' epic infidelities? Woods was getting ready for his putt, said the golfer.  ... More >>

Rick Perry Leads Florida Poll Going Into Debate, Followed by Mitt Romney and Still... Sarah Palin

Texas Gov. Rick Perry​Without much difference from the national poll released the day of the CNN/Tea Party express GOP presidential debate two weeks ago, most Florida Republicans would pick Texas Gov. Rick Perry as their presidential nominee, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released ... More >>

Top of the Point Unveils 'American Roadtrip' Dinners

​From the Top of the Point you can see all the way to Nantucket. The Napa Valley too. And Santa Fe and New Orleans. (Not Russia, though. Sorry, Sarah Palin.)  Actually, though the vistas from the penthouse restaurant atop West Palm's Phillips Point East Tower are both gorgeous and expansive, ... More >>

Rick Scott's Bromance Partner Rick Perry Leads Republican Presidential Candidates in Florida

Love hurts sometimes.​It looks like the guy who called Gov. Rick Scott "a stud" is currently leading the field of Republican presidential hopefuls for the 2012 election.According to a American Research Group poll of 600 Republican voters, 16 percent would chose Texas Gov. Rick Perry as the per ... More >>

Rick Scott's Office Unveils a Slightly Less Ridiculous Plan for Records Requests

Information? We'll bill you for it.​Since Gov. Rick Scott's office decided that the public and reporters had to pay a price for open government in early March, it's been a huge complaint.They're not backtracking on charging people, but they're having a sale on getting information, according to a m ... More >>

Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Interview Problems

​Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the DNC, has two big PR problems. The first is that she speaks almost exclusively in what sounds like focus-group-tested sound bites. The second is that she's no good at it, either because she lacks a certain common touch or because her sound bites are ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: No. 34 -- Fried Calamari With Moroccan Aioli From Sundy House

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 34: Fried Calamari With Moroccan Aioli From Sundy House There's something ... More >>

Allen West "On The Hot Seat"?

The author intended to write a caption, but became sick to his stomach before he had the chance.​Sweet mercy, bring me strong liquor in large containers, for I have just learned that Allen West is "not a kitten kind of guy."Yes. Allen West prefers puppies. Didja hear that? Puppies.This information ... More >>

Michelle Obama Saves the World From Ronald McDonald, Burger King, KFC and Sarah Palin

Flickr/Donkey Hokey​Taiwanese animators NMA have released a video that shows First Lady Michelle Obama as a superhero (in green tights, cape and stylish, yet sensible ballet flats) fighting off Colonel Sanders, Ronald McDonald and The Burger King with bananas as they roam the streets of the ... More >>

Sunday Politics: Q&A With Tea Partier on Health Care

The Tea Party has demonized health-care reform -- or Obamacare, as it calls it -- to the point that the group seems to believe that it alone is going to destroy America. Tea Party signs​They've disrupted Congressional town hall meetings, screamed about sociali ... 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 >>

Must-See TV: Six Food Shows We'd Like to Watch in 2011

​Anyone who's watched food TV since its inception has seen a steady evolution of the medium, from a staid Mario Batali cooking for three friends to Gordon Ramsay going batshit in Kitchen Nightmares to the snarky food soap opera that's Top Chef to Adam Richman snarfing down burritos as thick and lo ... More >>

Allen West 4 Prez 2012: Conservatives Turn Up the Volume on This Possibility

via Facebook​The Tea Party's grassroots methods have proven effective in this year's elections, for better or worse. And now that the conservatives have a strong foothold, it seems the same bottom-up mechanism is beginning to churn out a new message: Allen West 4 Prez.

Economic Gloom Lingers (PLUS: Halloween Costumes to Counteract the Sadness)

​We crossed our fingers before checking the most recent unemployment data, but the preliminary numbers crunched by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and released today reveal that September was just more of the same, with unemployment in Florida at 11.9 percent, up slightly from August. Only Californ ... More >>

Photo Fun

This photo of Gov. Charlie Crist and Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter could be a classic someday​. They look so darned happy. Inside see more. 

Video Highlights From Last Week's Broward Tea Party

flickr.com​It's almost impossible to describe the sights and sounds of last Thursday's Tax Day Tea Party without making it seem like it was a crowd of angry, government-hating, probably-racist religious nuts willing to exploit their children to convince people the federal government should stop sp ... More >>

Thirty Things You Should Never Say To Your Boss At The Company Party

​'Tis the season for those fantastic non-denominational holiday office parties. It's a magical time of year (several weeks before Christmas) when you take a few hours to stop thinking about your family and the friends you care about deeply, and focus on celebrating the season with the people you s ... More >>

Five Reasons Charlie Crist Wants You To Call A Phone Sex Line

flickr.com​If you haven't heard, the governor of this great state has been directing people to call a phone sex chat line.Anyone calling Charlie Crist's office heard a recording of the governor directing people to various social services, with URLs and phone numbers. The phone number he gave for F ... More >>

Frank "The Fist" Ortis Tells Nation's Mayors to Play Nice

That's video from August 29, when Pembroke Pines Mayor Frank Ortis climbed in the ring with NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor. Considering that LT could have crushed Ortis' skull with one swing, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that the rolly-polly mayor is an advocate of civility and g ... More >>

Screw Raw Food, Author Says, Because Cooking Made Us Human

​You may have thought cooking was just a way to get something to eat.   Actually, it's why homo sapiens developed bodies strong enough to bench-press a dump truck and brains that could create incomprehensible "financial instruments" to sell to widows and orphans and crash the world econo ... More >>

Tea Party Team Fights Obama, MoveOn on Health Care

RBerteigIf the website NoGovernmentHealthcare.com is any indication, the group of conservative folks who organized the local version of the nationwide "tea parties" have become emboldened by the turnouts they've drawn. Now they are fighting Obama's plan to move toward nationalized health care. If th ... More >>

Air Sex is Better Than No Sex

Flickr.com Like air guitar, but with different fake instruments. But no air sex--that's the worst of all. And right now South Florida is effectively air-sex celebate. (Don't get me started on the air-religious groups.) What is this "air sex," you ask? "It's a lot like air guitar, but r ... More >>

World-Renowned Poll Cruncher Awed by Crist's Popularity

No true political wonk goes 24 hours without checking fivethirtyeight.com, except maybe the people in Congressman Kendrick Meek's senatorial campaign, because seriously, campaigns run on hope.Last week, the site's wunderkind blogger, Nate Silver, devised a new metric (always with the metrics, this o ... More >>

Can Florida Governors Save GOP From Its Self-Destructive Impulses?

Flickr User: marsdencartoonsMaybe Rush Limbaugh doesn't spend enough time in his Palm Beach home. Because clearly, there's no path back to political relevance for the Republican Party that does not include winning back Florida. And yet the two figures who have the most credibility on that front, gov ... More >>

Grrrl Power Rocks

Conservatives Rise Up, Hit Local Streets

This week, even his most ardent haters had to be stunned at Rush Limbaugh's remarkable political sway. The conservative radio host, who broadcasts from a "bunker" in Palm Beach, got an "Obama bump" when the prez dissed him publicly, casually remarking that Republicans ought to stop listening to his ... More >>

Coral Ridge Surrenders; Jack Seiler Explains

The church that D. James Kennedy built is waving the white flag in the culture war -- just in time for Barack Obama's inauguration. By hiring 36-year-old Tullian Tchividjian -- Billy Graham's grandson -- Coral Ridge Presbyterian has all but surrendered its right-wing, homop ... More >>

Top Ten of '08: Pop Singles

Top Ten of '08: Metal

The year's highlights came from the Southern Hemisphere, the rage within, and the mouths of babes

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were dem ... More >>

Top 10 Metal Albums of 2008

In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. G ... More >>

Drown Your Troubles in Tullamore

Is there a cure in Biddy Early's mysterious bottles?

Dennis Miller’s no help for grieving McCainites

South African Songstress Miriam Makeba Dies

Barack Obama wins -- and So Does South Florida

It's a victory just to have an election pass without a local embarrassment

Last Night: Gloria Estefan at Seminole Hard Rock

The Gaffe Gap Narrows

Gryphon aims to have SoFla's hottest Friday

Yolks and Yuks With The Podleski Sisters

Beyond the Hood

DJ Khaled drops We Global

McCain's VP Pick Is Beyond The Palin

McCain Picks Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

Too Clever by a Fourth

A.R. Gurney's The 4th Wall at Palm Beach Dramaworks comes close to its potential before dashing it all