It takes a special kind of person to be smug about conclusive proof of one’s idiocy, but Donald Trump has practice. He was smug about the disastrous bankruptcy that resulted from his hubristic overreach; he was smug about refusing to pay unknown millions to European creditors after the real estate…
There was an ugly scene at Allen West’s town hall meeting at Calvary Chapel last night, when a small, peaceful premeeting protest morphed into a series of increasingly angry disruptions after West took the stage. The protesters in the meeting became especially tetchy when it became apparent that West didn’t…
The bad news: After percolating through subcommittee and getting yeaed and nayed half to death, Senate Bill 432 is headed to the Senate Floor today. SB 432, please recall, is the bill that would prevent pediatricians from asking parents whether they own a gun. (Pediatricians generally ask parents about guns…
Florida TaxWatch, an organization not known for the generation of stimulating reading material, released an absolute eye-popper of a report this week titled “Florida Taxpayers Spend Millions Annually on Communications and Legislative Affairs Staff in State Agencies.” Not catchy, sure, but check it out: Apparently, Floridians spend a little more…
In America, one hopes, one must at least attempt to commit a crime before being punished for it. Not so if you happen to be Pastor Terry Jones, the irretrievably stupid Floridian preacher and Muslim-baiter. Last week found Jones in Dearborn, Michigan, preparing to protest the country’s largest mosque. Before…
Women Impacting the Nation, or WIN, is a bunch of conservative ladies who want to, you know, impact the nation. On April 19 in Boca, Allen West told them how to do it: Raise strong men.”…what made the Spartan men strong,” said West:it was the Spartan women. Because the Spartan…
As I write this, Floridian women in the second and third trimesters of a pregnancy must submit to a sonogram before procuring an abortion. In Tallahassee on April 20, Rep. Liz Porter of Lake City stumped for a bill that would extend the requirement to women in the first trimester.As…
Yesterday, I wrongly predicted that Scotty McCreery, Jacob Lusk, and Stefano Langone would find themselves in Idol’s bottom three last night. In fact, it was Lusk, Langone, and Haley Reinhart. But I correctly predicted Langone would be the one sent packing. I’m seldom so pleased to have been right.See ya,…
Here are a few facts about a man named Grady Bell. Try to picture him.Bell is 67 years old. Since 1998, he has been arrested 120 or more times. Last week, he appeared in the court room of Palm Beach County circuit court judge Christa Marx to face charges of…
There’s a reason singing isn’t an Olympic sport, and here it is: Notes are boring. No matter how high, no matter how low, no matter their vibrato, color, or duration, notes are inert and useless things. If I know this — me, a blogger making 15 cents a day in…
There are 7 billion people in the world. A little more than a quarter of them are connected to the internet. Of those, most could slap together a simple website if they really wanted to. Many have.Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the comely congresswoman from Florida’s 20th, thinks Google should closely monitor…
Last month, this blog reported that a Delray Beach oilman named Harry Sargeant III may have overcharged the U.S. government by more than $200 million while fulfilling military contracts. Now, according to MSNBC.com, Sargeant is being accused of bribing Jordanian government officials to secure land routes through Jordan. (Full disclosure:…
The foreign policy of a Donald Trump presidency began to take shape last weekend in Boca, where “The Donald” addressed a massed throng of Tea Partiers celebrating (celebrating?) tax day. Here’s a slide show from the Tax Day Rally. The foreign policy portions of Trump’s address were not the ones to…
Yesterday, The Sun Sentinel informed the world of a Monday tour of FPL’s Turkey Point nuclear power plant by Congressfolk Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, David Rivera, Mario Diaz-Balart and Frederica Wilson. “We understand how different this facility is from the facility in Japan,” said Ros-Lehtinen. “So we have a responsibility to reach…
Sixty souls were apprehended in Polk County over the last week, as Polk’s finest spent your tax payer dollars arresting sex-workers and their clients. Among the apprehended were a sex-starved Disney mechanic and a man with breast implants who advertised his services on Backpage.com. (Backpage.com is a classifieds website owned…
The above is a not-entirely-fair video filmed at FAU, in which Allen West is asked a question he plainly has no idea how to answer — by a long-haired, peace-loving NORML activist, no less; a species with which West has had little experience in dealing, and which must strike him…
Hope Witsell was a 13-year-old Tampa girl who, in 2009, made the terrible mistake of “sexting” seminude pictures of herself to a boy in her class. The boy passed the pics around, as teenaged boys are wont to do, after which Witsell was ceaselessly ridiculed by her classmates. Then she…
Allen West sounds tired. He’s working very, very hard, and unlike just about anybody else in our Congress, he actually talks to his constituents. Constantly. They want him, he’s there. Wanna talk to him one on one? More often than not, he advertises the route he takes on his morning…
The story of the smart-kid-who-graduates-high-school-early-and-goes-to-college-at-a-crazy-young-age-and-will-do-great-things-in-her-life is a journalistic gimme. Every few months, a journalist will find such a story and will report on it, expecting perhaps that readers will feel a brief moment of hope for the otherwise doomed present generation before sinking back into their default modes of cynicism…
Having read Slate’s recent article on Donald Trump’s last presidential pseudo-candidacy, I’m now a little sad to have missed “The Donald”‘s Tea Party-coordinated Tax Day event in Boca Raton. The Donald, I now understand, is a great American, and we should probably make him the leader of the free world.Isn’t…
“It was a disaster for me personally,” said Kevin Schupp, speaking last week to South Florida Gay News about his time in an “ex-gay” group in Dania Beach. “The man teaching the so-called ‘ex-gay’ ministry had no clinical or theological training.”The program to which Schupp refers was the “Restoring Hope”…
Whaddayaknow. Maybe the American people know what they’re doing.On last night’s Idol elimination episode, Haley Reinhart, Stefano Langone, and Paul McDonald found themselves in the bottom three. I wrote yesterday that Paul deserved to go, because he’s never used his little wisp of a voice with sufficient intelligence or verve…
