Michael Colanero, founder of the Breast Cancer Awareness Body Painting Project, has had beef with Facebook since 2011. Colanero and his team of artists created a series of images featuring breast-cancer survivors — many of whom had been through mastectomies — topless, their chests painted elaborately with thick paint. Facebook…
Looks like Florida has finally joined in on the texting-and-driving-ban palooza after Gov. Rick Scott officially made it illegal to do so. Scott signed the bill on Tuesday, making Florida the 40th state to enact some sort of text-while-driving ban. Florida drivers will not be able to write or read…
It looks like Florida’s texting-and-driving ban, which was at one point was almost derailed by the House added some frivolous amendments to it last month, will become a thing when Rick Scott signs it into law next week. The bill barely made it to the governor’s desk thanks to an…
Photo courtesy of Mercy for AnimalsOne of the nearly 3,000 pigs at Country View Family Farms in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania. The far mis a supplier for Hatfield Quality Meats, which is sold in twelve Northeastern states.This week’s story, “The Ag Gag War,” goes behind the scenes of the guerilla fight between…
Update: The Boy Scouts voted today to allow gay youth to participate. 61 percent of the voted in favor. Cue the trumpets and fanfare: today might be the day when the Boy Scouts of America finally cross into 21st Century. Sure, it’s a little belated. For the last few years,…
Remember when Rick Scott shortened early voting days, and then denied a request to extend it by a whole day back in November when reports kept coming in that people were waiting up to 8 hours in line to vote? WELL, NEITHER DOES RICK SCOTT. Because he’s your early voting…
See South Florida? We knew underneath all that sun-soaked apathy and cosmetic work you had some dormant activist ire. Last week, we clued you in on the protests breaking out around the country against the possible sale of the Tribune Co.’s fleet of top-quality news sources. Demonstrations were held in…
“We don’t need a Koch problem!” say organizers from 1Miami, who will protest at noon today outside of the Sun-Sentinel’s Fort Lauderdale headquarters. Rumors have been swirling that billionaire conservative brothers Charles and David Koch are in talks to buy the Tribune chain of eight daily newspapers, of which Sun-Sentinel…
It’s veto day! The happiest day of the year for Rick Scott, who, for a moment at least, can appear both judicious and magnanimous. On this day, he can decide, with one stroke of his mighty gubernatorial pen, which projects will net funding. And which will not. Rick Scott announced…
In case you missed it, Tea Partiers around the country are mad at the IRS. Long story short: the IRS isn’t supposed to let any old group be exempt from paying taxes. Agency rules dictate that it is only supposed to grant 501 (c)(4) status to “social welfare” groups –…
The media “Kochtapus” could soon be a reality. The clock is running down on the sale-time for the Tribune Company, a package of some of the most venerated newspapers in the country, including our own Sun-Sentinel. The troubled company is expected to go to the highest bidder this month, and,…
Rick Scott may have opened the door to what would be quite the dynamic duo of derpness at the top. Scott told a Tampa-area radio station that he would be cool with considering former Rep. Allen West as his next lieutenant governor. Actually, Scott basically just gave a polite answer…
Marco Rubio and the GOPers have their new Obama outrage to dryhump with this IRS fiasco where they targeted conservative groups during the 2012 election. And so Rubes is asking — nay, DAMANDING — that the IRS Commissioner resign his IRS Commissiony job effective immediately because… outrage! Also, there is…
Late Wednesday evening, Charlie Crist set off a small detonation in the political sphere by throwing his support behind gay marriage. Now, this wasn’t exact a surprise. Since officially signing his Democrat papers six months ago, the former Florida governor has been slowly ditching his old Republican stances. Crist 2.0…
The Florida Legislature is kind of like that family friend who comes and crashes your pad for two weeks, rearranges everything in your cupboards, tells you exactly what kind of person you are, and then leaves so you can live in the mess they just created. After two more quick…
The idea of swallowing down morning coffee alongside some front-page libertarian bloviation courtesy of a Koch-owned Sun Sentinel isn’t sitting too well with some. Last week, we sent out a smoke signal about the possible media sale everyone is talking about: The South Florida daily’s parent — the Tribune Co…
Fire Ant tries to be charitable in assessing the Tea Party. Confused, fearful people in a confusing, frightening age, they’re mere pawns in the games of the rich and powerful. But when organized stupidity denies medical care to people in need, stupidity must be called to account. Take the Palm…
Jeb! Bush is speaking in Texas on Wednesday. Hillary Clinton is also slated to speak in Texas on Wednesday at a different event. Also in Texas on Wednesday: 2016 Presidential Hopeful Speculation!…
Kionna Elliot, 18, and Payton Karr, 16, of Northeast High School in Broward unveiled their science-fair project in the East Garden of the White House on Wednesday afternoon.And the result was not only a display of pride from students repping our hometown but it also gave us a fantastic image…
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…
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,”…
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…
