Florida Sues BP and Halliburton Over 2010 Oil Spill

Florida got the Earth Day festivities kicked off early with some good old-fashioned litigation. Over the weekend, Florida joined Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana in suing BP and Halliburton over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The suit, filed by State Attorney General Pam Bondi in U.S. District Court in Panama…

TSA Has Been Ordered to Listen to Your Complaints

It’s bad enough that TSA workers have to look at your flabby fat ass through their full-body scanners, but now they’re going to have to take a public scolding too. According to a 90-day court order by the U.S. Court of Appeals of D.C., the Transportation Security Administration will now…

Chick-fil-A Stadium: FAU Considered Homophobic Firm

There’s the sublime. There’s the ridiculous. And there’s the sublimely ridiculous. If former FAU Athletics Director Craig Angelos is to believed, the last of those three is the realm inhabited by the school’s leadership, as far as PR savvy. The school’s tone-deaf ways have been infamous from coast to coast…

Air Show Illness: Vomiting in a Plane is No Fun

A strange thing happens when you’re catapulting through the upper layers of the troposphere, upside down, and inside a plane that weighs less than 500 pounds. Your higher synapses suddenly shut down, and while the rational part of your brain knows — knows — you’re completely safe, that you’re with…

Bomb Threat at South Plantation High School UPDATED

UPDATE: According to the Sun-Sentinel’s Twitter feed, the bomb threat is being called a hoaxSouth Plantation High School is on lockdown due to a bomb threat. Students have been cordoned off in a park across the street from campus. Police is not is allowing anyone to leave. Officers have set…

Madness in Boston: One Bomb Suspect Dead, Other Hunted

While much of the nation was asleep, Boston experienced madness as police identified and chased two of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. The suspects are said to be 19- and 20-something-year-old brothers who seem to have been living near Boston for at least a year based on internet…

Gun Control Bill Dies, Florida Legislature Reacts Accordingly

Ah, Florida Legislature. No, Gays, you can’t do that. No, Women, you can’t do that. No, Poors, you can’t have that. BUT TAKIN’ MAH GUNZ IS A VIOLATION OF MAH RIGHTS!! And so it goes. When news broke that the gun control bill hit the proverbial brick wall and died Wednesday…

Miami Heat 2013 Wrecking Tour Part II Starts Sunday

Here we go, Heat fans.Now that the regular season is over, and the Miami Heat competed a team-best 66-win season, and all the media-myth created nonsense about LeBron James being a choker is over and done with, and all the media-myth created nonsense about Heat fans being the worst fanbase…

FAU Student Suspended For Two Years After Off-Campus Brawl

Florida Atlantic University has had no shortage of bad headlines in the last semester. Well, chalk up another one: A student is saying the school committed bureaucratic overkill when it suspended him for two years for an off-campus fight — one he claims was not his fault…

Strange Car With Lawn Chairs Is Street Legal

Though it may seem too good to be true, Bobbie Bauman’s fly ride is street legal. Instead of car seats, the 1949 Ford has lawn chairs latched inside its frame. Rather than a coolant container, it’s got a Jack Daniel’s bottle. Instead of steering-wheel pleather, there’s motorcycle chain. The car’s…

FAU Trustee Angela Graham-West Explains Why She Felt Harassed; Students Call for Restraining Order Against Allen West

Today former U.S. Rep. Allen West posted threatening-sounding messages on his Facebook and Twitter accounts, suggesting that Florida Atlantic University students had harassed his wife, Angela Graham-West, a trustee at the school. This afternoon via phone, Graham-West explained what prompted his message. “This all started out as an internal thing,”…

Lionfish Hunting Rules May Be Eased Even More By FWC (UPDATED)

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are set to vote on making it easier for people to hunt down and kill lionfish in Florida waters. In case you weren’t aware, lionfish are basically the ocean’s biggest assholes. They’re invasive, they eat everything, and nothing eats them. And they are…

Florida Armed Security Guards in Schools Bill Heads to House

Oh hey, lookit. A bill that would allow armed guards to walk around your kid’s school has been introduced to the Florida House, because the state legislature is a fantastic entity of profound and wondrous ideas. It’s called HB 1097. And it’s gonna cure all our nation’s ills. The answer to gun…