Win a Free Glock From the Delray Shooting Center!

Glock 17, Free to Good Home.Responsible owners wanted.Should be able to provide proper housing. Previous gun ownership preferable, but not required.A movie theater might give out free passes to a new film. Pet stores might adopt out a free cat with the purchase of cat food and a litter box.When…

Feds Cite Planck Institute Over Animal Welfare. Activists Demand CEO’s Head

[jump] In an email to New Times, Planck Chief Operating Officer Ivan Baines stated that its research–regarding “fundamental questions about the biology of the brain”–cannot be done by computer simulation and “requires the use of laboratory animals.”  He stated that the institute “is and has always been committed to maintaining the…

Homeowner in Dispute With Neighbor Spray-Paints Own Home

A couple of Sarasota homeowners got into a neighborhood dispute. So one of the parties involved in the ballyhoo decided to take things up a notch and got some spray paint and covered one of the homes with bright, neon-colored graffiti. Of course, the home covered in spray paint was…

Best of Palm Beach This Year: Carpe Annum

Back in the early ’90s, shortly after the Fire Ant crash-landed in Palm Beach, we hooked up with some other malcontents and put out an alternative rag called Red Herring. It was an alternative that looked alternative, mainly because it depended on the largesse of a string of eccentric businessmen…

Allen West Almost Became the New Speaker of the House

After many House Republicans lost their shit over Speaker of the House John “It’s Not Pronounced Boner” Boehner helped them lose their fight over the fiscal cliff bill that was passed on New Year’s Eve, many began to make harrumph noises about whether he was fit for duty. So when…

LeBron James Almost Killed a Dude With One of His Laser Passes

If you’re too busy still hating LeBron James, then you really are missing out on enjoying a player we pretty much haven’t seen in a long time, if ever. As he did last season, James is quietly dominating the NBA with his basketball awesomeness, earning his second-straight NBA Player of…