South Florida has recently welcomed a visitor from a more advanced civilization: the American Northeast. Mind you, this one wasn’t captured by one of our tribes and dragged here for interrogation. His spaceship did not crash-land here. Rather, William Haseltine, a “scientist, businessman and philanthropist,” came to South Florida of…
At least the latest public-relations nightmare doesn’t involve another prison riot. The GEO Group of Boca Raton is now catching flak in the Pacific Northwest, where it began expanding a Tacoma, Wash., prison, allegedly without bothering to tell the state. A seemingly benign oversight, except for the fact that the…
Never, ever, ever turn your back on a duck. Sure, they look cute and harmless, but then so do Swiss bankers. WPLG tells the story of a sweet old lady in Wilton Manors who crossed the path of some pissed-off poultry.Carmela Dee, who is in her 80s, said she was…
Attention boys and girls! It’s that time of the year again. A time for everyone to bask in the mass consumerism of a holiday that seems like it was created just to make a few people feel like shit while everyone else gets laid and eats chocolate (or oysters). If…
The Australian bush fires that started on Saturday have racked up a devastating death toll, with 181 confirmed dead and it could total over 200. How does the world comfort itself? By oohing and ahhing over a rescued koala bear. Get outta the way, you un-cuddly human survivor with unsightly…
“Individuals can capture iguanas,” affirms Pat Behnke, a spokeswoman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission who specializes in species and habitats. “They’re free to dispose of them, but we don’t recommend any particular way.” Yep, folks, that means you can grill ’em. And eat ’em. “Just use common sense,”…
This is a very special year for skeptics, atheists, secularists, and the the world’s most fervent evolution-promoting intectualists. February 12 marks what would have been Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday…had he better adapted to his environment and not died 127 years ago. This is also the 150th anniversary of the publication…
Author Benoit Denizet-Lewis, a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, recently came out as a sex addict in the pages of the Modern Love section. He’s on the last leg of his first book tour, promoting America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life, and last night he…
When you’re done with a guy, you can’t mail him cross-state to be melted down and recycled. But now you can with your dildo.In December, a Tampa-based sex toys company called Dreamscapes announced that it would begin accepting used vibrators and dildos for recycling. The response ranged from “Hey, that’s…
This weekend’s New York Times Magazine has a lengthy article that dangles a tantalizing reward: The answer to the question, What Do Women Want?Sexually.Sorry, fellow straight guys. After 7,381 words, the writer and a slew of “sexologists” give a collective shrug. One thing researchers do know is that women are…
Brrr! Even South Florida gets cold in the winter. And in a holiday season when so many of us are out of work and have time to kill, the stars have aligned for one very peculiar product — or are there two?Surely you’ve seen the infomercial for “The Snuggie –…
Guess what, boaters? A researcher at Florida Atlantic University says that motoring slowly through designated manatee protection habitats may put the meandering sea cows at greater risk of getting hacked up by your boat’s motor. Says Dr. Edmund Gerstein, the university’s director of marine mammal behavioral research: “In turbid waters where there is no visibility, slow speeds…
A nifty GPS system for the Snorks
