At left, you’ll find the single most interesting picture taken in Florida in the last five years. (Other than this one, I mean.) Pictured is a 13-foot Burmese Python which has bitten off more than it can chew — except the python has dispensed with the biting, and the chewing,…
Whoops, I was wrong. Last week, I wrote that the so-called “supermoon” wouldn’t cause any problems, ‘cuz it’s a silly astrological concept with virtually no real-world significance. Read the debunking here! It’s great!Unfortunately, it failed to account for human boneheadedness, which often foils good science. Because while the supermoon was…
Senate Bill 830 is one of those horribly-written pieces of legislation so hung up on maintaining its own official-soundingness that it takes two or three read-throughs to figure out what the damned thing means. Read it here, and be amazed at your own capacity for boredom and bemusement.Police officers have…
Newspapers today are proudly touting Florida’s new unemployment numbers, which have allegedly dropped to a two-year low of 11.5%. Jesus, when did “11.5” start sounding like good news?Well, it’s not — it’s not even news at all, ‘cuz our unemployment statistics are meaningless. Americans still gauge unemployment by looking at…
It ain’t easy being Catholic. You gotta give things up for Lent, remember the holidays of approximately 10,000 saints, listen to the moralization of child molesters’ accomplices every Sunday. You’ve gotta forget about extra-coital orgasms, oral sex, wanking, sodomy, abortion, personal relations with “Christ,” and the private repentance of “sin.”…
(This is a continuation of a similarly-named story, which may be found here.)My ex band-mate, the Bishop S.F. Makalani-MaHee, belongs to just about every put-upon minority in modern America. She’s a musician, first of all, which naturally raises the suspicions of the world’s decent people. And she’s female. And black…
This is a confession.Like most SoFla news junkies, I’ve followed with interest the ongoing controversy surrounding Broward school board member Ann Murray’s regrettable use of “the N-word” in a conversation in 2007. For those few who have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s a quick breakdown: On the 18th,…
Ann Coulter says crazy things. She does it all the time, and most of us are used to it. But there’s crazy, see, and then there’s Crazy — the kind of blithely lethal insanity that’d make you scream and run if it weren’t proffered by a pretty, grinning, blond lady…
If you’re a man, and you’ve set foot in a bar in Wilton Manors sometime in the last ten years, you know how silly are the following words, which appeared in this story at South Florida Gay News:Rape is not the only reason to contact the authorities. If you are…
Allen West’s latest town hall confrontation with a Muslim ended very differently from his last one. In the last one, West was taken by surprise by Nezar Hamze, who wanted to ask the notorious Muslim-baiter precisely where Qur’an demands the murder of Americans and/or innocents. West turned hostile, delivered a…
Will it ever end? You make one bone-headed remark about an 11-year-old who was “gang-raped in Texas by 18 young men because she dressed up like a 21-year-old prostitute” and it’s like you’re a bad person or something. HuffPo picks on you, we pick on you, the Buzz picks on…
(Note: The above video is rife for unpacking, so I’m doing it over the course of three short articles. This is the second; the first is viewable here.)I would like to draw your attention to two discussions of civilians in the above video. In one instance, you’ve got Allen West…
Above you’ll find Allen West, talking on Sunday at the second anniversary picnic of Florida 9/12. He is speaking about President Barack Obama’s weakness in the face of Muammar Gaddafi. “I don’t care what anyone says — you can’t win a war from 30,000 feet,” he says. Thank goodness we’re…
For the second time in as many weeks, a Florida Democrat has announced plans to challenge Allen West to represent Florida’s 22nd district in 2012. That Democrat is Lois Frankel — a woman with a lot of enemies, a few quirks, and a whole lot of explaining to do.Frankel served…
The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation has just released the first-ever mobile app created by a state agency in the U. S. of A. As with anything bearing the mark of DBPR, the app is relentlessly exciting; a thrill-a-minute, knuckle-whitening tour de force as infpormafdklj as it is…
Friday, the Miami Herald published a glowing editorial about a city in Broward County. The reason? Despite a general downward plunge in Florida’s population growth, this lucky municipality grew by a whopping 67% in the last decade!Here are some quotes. Take a gander, and see if you can figure out…
A two-page report on a proposed Turkey Point nuclear power plant appeared this weekend in the Sun Sentinel, but calling it a “two page” report doesn’t really begin to cover it. These are massive pages, 1,600 words in total. Feature-length pages, in Sentinel terms. And why? Is there a radiation…
Yesterday, 34-year-old Dana Alan Carvello was sitting on his porch in Boca Raton, perhaps smoking a doob, when he was allegedly accosted by several men. They beat him about the head and dragged him into his home, where, according to the Palm Beach Post, the men “tied him up,” stashed…
Yesterday, The Washington Post revealed that Delray Beach billionaire and oilman Harry Sargeant III may have bilked the US government — and, by extension, the US taxpayer — to the tune of $200 million, while supplying jet fuel to American troops in western Iraq. Rep. Harry Waxman (D., CA), accused…
SoFla’s sexiest pundit, Ann Coulter, published a singularly weird article this week, extolling the many health benefits which our friends in Japan may expect to derive from their exposure to excess radiation.”With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan,” she begins, “the only good news is that…
Real quick: Saturday’s so-called “supermoon” won’t cause earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, madness, or any significant uptick in theft/murder/mischief. In fact, the whole concept of the “supermoon” is bogus. Here’s why:The Moon’s Orbit. According to breathless reports in the Sun Sentinel and elsewhere, the “supermoon” has the moon “making its closest approach…
This week, political junkies made much of Sen. Marco Rubio’s sudden re-emergence in the national media after three months of almost total silence. Some people — by which I mean “I” — thought Rubio’s invisibility was a sign that his celebrity had ebbed — that he’d permanently ceded star power…
