NOTE, 3:15 p.m.: The headline has been changed from “Is Acting Stupid” to “Was Acting Stupid,” as we can’t really tell how stupid they’re being at the moment.For the latest (hint: a juror said he was innocent), check out our latest post.Original post, 12:06 p.m.:If Wellington rich guy and convicted…
You’d need only one guess to figure out which congressman criticized President Obama for using college students as “political pawns” hours before going into Congress to use college students as political pawns.Explaining his vote on Friday’s extension of student loan interest rate cuts, Congressman Allen West spoke out against the…
It was raining all weekend, the second half of the Fort Lauderdale Air Show was canceled, and the falling wet stuff isn’t going away anytime soon. Rain in Florida isn’t anything new, but weather reports indicate thunderstorms hitting the area every day for the next week. Womp.Weather.com puts next Sunday…
On Wednesday, reporter New Times Chris Sweeney brought you an interview with St. Petersburg medical researcher Adam Ostrzenski, who says he may have discovered the fabled G spot in a dead 83-year-old.The peer-reviewed paper Ostrzenski wrote about it got a lot of attention in the interblags, but not all of it was…
For all their talk of small government, Florida’s Republicans sure do like a bill that would let Big Brother spy on all the stuff you’ve been doing online.The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act would remove the legal barriers between the websites that have your data and the government that wants…
We’re not under attack — those fighter jets you heard making all that racket yesterday in the skies above Fort Lauderdale are F-16s from the Air Force’s Thunderbirds demonstration team, and I’m sorry if the noise woke up your infant or whatever, but this is the coolest thing ever, and…
The ugliness has started. Sort of.Until now, Congressman Allen West has remained almost silent when it came to actually having an opponent in the race for the District 19 congressional seat — though Democrat Patrick Murphy followed him up there after West bailed on District 22 for friendlier demographics.But late…
Jimmy “Boo Boo” Clemons is into some shady business, and it may have gotten his mother and aunt killed.The 17-year-old Boynton Beach man was arrested yesterday evening in connection with the March 16 killing of 22-year-old Valley Alexandre, whom a witness said Clemons targeted because he believed Alexandre to be…
Renegade Fox News employee Joe Muto got a lot of attention when he joined Gawker and started writing dispatches from the inside of the Murdoch empire. He got only one post in before he was found out and fired from Fox, with a follow-up letter from the legal folks being…
This is not a satirical piece. It is real. No foolin’, folks.In a Facebook message posted Tuesday, Congressman Allen Bernard West continued his proud and stupid tradition of calling people names instead of proposing actual solutions. While the message is only 77 words long, not a single word of it…
You’ve got the chance to save a boatload of money on your electric bill, and the electric company wants to help you do it.Florida Power & Light announced earlier this week that it would be offering more than $3 million in rebates to customers who install solar equipment in their…
Republican Congressman and Professional Commie Hunter Allen West has a column in today’s edition of D.C. newspaper The Hill, and, if you haven’t yet been fortunate enough to receive its rhetorical wet willie, here’s a breakdown of the otter-in-a-moonbounce-level silliness of what West tries to pass off as an actual…
In case you aren’t one of the ridiculously cultured sirs who read Gentleman’s Quarterly, let this be a heads-up to you that the latest issue has a feature on Christopher Chaney, the Jacksonville man who used Google and the “I forgot my password” button to hack into the email accounts…
Former Republican Florida Congressman Mark Foley received his last campaign contribution ever on September 28, 2006 — a $2,100 check from a Palm City physician. The next day, Foley resigned from Congress, disgraced by a scandal over sexually explicit messages the (sort-of) secretly gay congressman had sent to teenaged boys…
Lauderhill 32-year-old James Ayers has been officially charged with first-degree murder in the March death of 19-year-old Juliana Mensch, according to court documents. He will be arraigned at 8 a.m. April 30 in room 5780 of the Broward County Courthouse.Police say Ayers used a stolen car to visit a friend…
On a Tuesday at the end of February, two Pittsburgh detectives were driving down the road around 3:45 p.m. when they saw an armored car parked on the road. Two men wearing Garda Security badges were standing in front of it. The detectives, it seems, thought this weird and pulled…
Public Policy Polling decided to pick Florida’s collective brain last week, and results released yesterday shed light on some very interesting trends. The most interesting: 26 percent of Floridians polled said George Zimmerman is innocent of the second-degree murder charges filed in the February killing of Trayvon Martin, but only…
A strong message was sent late last week to Florida judges who think it’s OK to habitually show up late to court proceedings for no reason: Meh, it’s cool.Ocala Circuit Judge William Singbush has been the subject of an investigation by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission, which was looking into…
Florida loves to pass laws solidifying the state’s solid traditional values — there’s the gay marriage ban we put into the state constitution in 2008, the law against sleeping with your roommate, the law against “unnatural” acts, the one completely outlawing commercial phone sex… the list goes on.So, with such a…
The lawyers of Wellington polo mogul John Goodman are trying to get him out of jail while he appeals his March conviction for DUI manslaughter, failure to render aid, and vehicular homicide in connection with the death of 23-year-old Scott Wilson, whom Goodman rammed off the road while he was…
UPDATE, 3 p.m.: Added comment from Bob Hirsh, curator of the Mark Twain Project.The plan for a new Mark Twain commemorative coin includes the phrase “In God We Trust,” a phrase Twain made fun of 150 years ago.Twain had a complicated relationship with religion. In the quote-collection snippets attributed to…
On April 12, a 97-year-old woman was out with her 85-year-old sister, doing what old folks do. Police didn’t say what they were doing, exactly — probably drinking milk shakes and talking about Herbert Hoover or how crazy air travel is or whatever people talk about when they’re pretty much…
