Ann Coulter is either cynical or crazy. I’m hoping for the latter, because I’d hate to think my home state contains anyone willing to dissemble as freely and viciously as she does in her latest column — a hot mess of half-assertions and quarter-truths too sloppy to illuminate anything even…
How’d we get here? Early this season, Jacob Lusk seemed like a lock for the title. Once during Hollywood Week and again during the live show, Lusk turned in performances that Randy Jackson rightly called the best in the history of the show. Then Lusk offered up a sexophobic justification…
You can kill animals. You can eat animals. You can even torture animals — and press charges against anybody who photographs you while you’re at it. But you can’t make sweet, sweet love to animals. Not anymore.This is a sad week for Florida’s zoophiles, for as I write this, there…
Oh, how I miss Casey Abrams. Without him, American Idol is five kids with nice voices doing middling karaoke.It could have been so much more! Back when Jacob Lusk was an androgyne dynamo; back when Haley Reinhart was a stock-still shrapnel-voiced song stylist, these kids had personality! Style! Confidence! They’ve…
Could the Sun-Sentinel’s corporate overlords at Tribune Co. please explain why Barbara Hijek has a job? Could they please explain why a paper at which honest-to-goodness investigative reporters and serious editorialists were not long ago pressured into accepting a series of increasingly crappy buyouts is still ceding valuable front-page real…
James “The Amazing” Randi was nowhere near New York City when the New York Observer researched its feature, “Dinner With The Unknowers: The NYC Skeptics Break Bread,” so it says something about the long shadow the guy casts that it was his picture, and not that of any of the…
Allen West, writing to the chairwoman of the subcommittee on state, foreign operations, and related programs, CC’ing Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, Hesarling, Rogers, Ros-Lehtinen, and McKeon:Dear Chairwoman:…It is not unreasonable for the American people to question. If Osama bin Laden was living on government-controlled land, next to a military academy, and…
An editorial by the lovely Mary Sanchez of Kansas City appeared this week beneath the Tribune Co.’s various mastheads, including that of our own Sun-Sentinel. It was a well-intentioned editorial but a sloppy one, and the way in which it was sloppy was symptomatic of the general muzziness surrounding the…
WSVN-7 ran a small item yesterday about the yanking from the classroom of a Blanche Ely High School teacher who was arrested on charges of domestic battery and cruelty to a child. The yanking, it seems, was caused by the arrest. The man hasn’t been convicted of anything. If he…
His most devout fans insist it’s sarcasm, but it’s not: Palm Beach’s loudest gazillionaire began his Monday radio broadcast with breathless, effusive, totally over-the-top, and completely sincere praise of President Obama. (See the video after the jump.)Said Limbaugh:Ladies and gentlemen, we need to open the program today by congratulating President…
Around the world, political writers begin their days hoping for an opportunity to attack the elected officials with whom they usually agree. They do this because writers are ever afraid of bias, and because not even the greatest human animals can’t stand to be improved by the occasional bout of…
American fellow-feeling has been going down the shittah since mid-2009 or so, and for those few remaining true believers in the power of rational discourse and basic human decency, it’s been a bum ride. Everything is political lately, it seems, and in the worst way. Left and right America agree…
Marco Rubio usually says what he means. Which is why his fans — and I count myself among them, even though I disagree with just about every one of his policies — should be saddened by a small item at the bottom of his latest weekly newsletter titled “Marco Rubio…
Big institutions are sometimes a little slow on the uptake. It took until 1992 for the Vatican to recognize its mistake re: Galileo. Blockbuster Video didn’t think to start renting movies online until NetFlix was 5 years old. Success, it seems, makes us sluggish.So were my thoughts upon reading the…
The “neurodiversity movement” doesn’t get a lot of press. But in the closing hours of “Autism Awareness Month” — or April, as it’s often known — neurodiversity got an unexpected shot of love in Nichole Brochu’s Sun Sentinel column, which she outsourced for the occasion to filmmaker Todd Drezner.Drezner has…
Do you know what your Senate was doing yesterday?Among other things, it passed HB 1127. This is an anti-abortion measure, I suppose, but it’s so profoundly useless that it’s hard to imagine it seriously offending even Florida’s baby-hatingest abortionists. Here’s the summary…
My bottom-three predictions were way the hell off last night, because last night there was no bottom three. Apparently, when there are only six people left, dividing the contestants in half seems uncouth — and makes it too, too easy to predict who’s gonna be left standing in five weeks.We…
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 comes atcha courtesy of the Sun-Sentinel. No, it does not report that Allen West prefers puppies when looking…
The American Lung Association came to Florida to learn, and left holding their noses. The air in Broward County has officially received a not-bad “B” for ground-level ozone (which is actually smog, as explained in the Sun Sentinel’s chastising article) and a grim “D” for “Particulate Pollution” (soot). These grades…
Last night was a sad one on American Idol, not least of all because the Sun-Sentinel’s television critic, Tom Jicha, was for once justified in his moony adoration of metalhead James Durbin.It was Carole King night on Idol, which, perhaps counterintuitively, is an ideal night for a metalhead to show…
Yesterday, 84-year-old Orlando Bosch breathed his last. This Cuban exile, extremist, letter-bomber, accomplice to murder, and disrespecter of human life was felled by “a long and painful illness.” But Orlando Bosch was sick long before his body failed him.When future generations review our moment in American history, the footnote that…
Today, two stories appeared in Floridian media outlets that didn’t seem to have much to do with each other but did.The first: “Florida’s Crime Rate the Lowest in 40 Years.” The title is a bit misleading — Florida didn’t begin tracking crime rates until 40 years ago, so our historic…
