The South Florida Tea Party posted some shocking statistics last week: Compared to England and Canada, Americans have better cancer survival rates, a larger proportion of healthy low-income seniors and better treatment of diabetes.It also said only 8 percent of President Barack Obama’s cabinet has experience in the private sector,…
In another public reaffirmation of his belief that gay people are going to make America lose wars, Florida Republican Congressman Allen West said at a dinner in Plant City Saturday night that “when you take the military and you tell it they must conform to the individual’s behavior, then it’s just…
We didn’t mean to open quite so many cans of worms with posts about Florida Rep. Allen West and the furious email he sent to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz. The blog posts stayed away from his politics, stayed away from her politics and simply suggested that one United States congressman…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Blame counterfeiting technology and man’s inclination to evil if you’d like, but we’re blaming the extortionist laundry industry for driving prices too high for the average Joe to keep his skivvies clean.Miami 24-year-old Dayan Capestany was arrested after Charlotte County Sheriff deputies say he tried to buy a box of…
And now, another update on the strange public ramblings of the Republican from Broward, Congressman Allen West. He took his crazytalk on the road yesterday, upgrading from hateful, bullying emails to a few thousand watts of radio power on Mark Levin’s show.He said liberals were threatened by him because he’s…
They were doing so well. After an atrocious June, the Florida Marlins got a new great-grandfather manager, won a long string of games and were creeping back toward .500.Then into town came the San Diego Padres, the team with the worst batting in the National League, to put a stop…
Jose Canseco bottoms out
Canseco Bottoms Out
New Times strikes a blow for justice against the onetime superstar.
Those snooty, Wayfarer-wearing jazz fans over at GQ have been crunching the numbers and actually came out with something quite meaningful: Out of the 2,364 four-year, degree-granting institutions in the U.S., the University of Florida is douchier than all but nine…
Hey Jets fans! There’s a new place to pick up fan gear — Sun Life Stadium. But hurry.Miami Herald columnist Armando Salguero tweeted a picture this morning of a shirt on sale in the Dolphins pro shop: “NEW YORK: Home of the Jets,” in that self-satisfied hunter green, hung proudly…
Republican Congressman Allen West, everyone’s favorite Iraqi-torturing politician from the 22nd district, has given us another lesson in the statesmanship he holds so dear.West sent an email to fellow Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz late yesterday after she made remarks on the House floor that referenced him after he left…
No one is saying bearded celebrity pretty boy Ashton Kutcher is wrong for using his public influence to help combat underage sex trafficking. But when we published a feature calling him out for his obviously phony stats, he got a little peeved. It got ugly.Now he’s naked on a billboard…
People have hated it from the beginning. The Transportation Security Administration’s “advanced imaging technology,” rolled out in November 2010, has caused all kinds of drama — there was the breast cancer survivor who had to take off her prosthesis, the bladder cancer survivor who was left soaked in urine, the…
The NBA lockout is making people do strange things: Heat players are beating on little kids at basketball camps, Chris Bosh went and got himself MARRIED, and Dwyane Wade is making YouTube videos about his Lasik procedure.Yes, the 2006 NBA Finals MVP and 2010 NBA All-Star Game MVP is now…
State Senate President Mike Haridopolos has given up on his run for U.S. Senate.The ethically challenged 41-year-old sent an email to supporters early today saying that his run for Senate is conflicting with his duties in the Florida State Senate, according to Roll Call…
After less than two weeks back in Venezuela, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has flown back to Cuba for cancer treatment, according to the Associated Press.The leader initially vanished from public view after getting emergency surgery in Havana for what was originally called a “pelvic abscess” on June 20; Chávez has…
Casey Anthony doesn’t get out of prison until Sunday, but the crazies are already out nationwide.Shireen Nalley was arrested in Oklahoma last Friday after police say Nalley saw a woman who looked like Casey Anthony in a convenience store and then followed the woman and ran her off the road…
Shortly after midnight Sunday, Orlando’s Casey Anthony was released from jail three years and one day after her 2-year-old daughter was reported missing and less than two weeks after Anthony was acquitted of her murder.Anthony’s future is unclear, especially given the amount of public vitriol over what many see as…
Though 15 percent of businesses in Miami-Dade County are owned by African Americans, only $260 million — 2 percent — of the county’s $13 billion contracts were awarded to black-owned businesses between 2006 and 2010, according to a press release from County Commissioner Barbara Jordan.”There is no commitment to black…
The Miami-based Christian Family Coalition is standing strong in support of Oakland Park Commissioner Jed Shank, who voted against a proclamation last month to recognize Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride & Equality Month because, he said, it was disrespectful to dads to recognize the gays but not Father’s Day.This…
Shrewd move, Michael Etienne.The North Miami city clerk revealed at a council meeting Tuesday that, while he was rooting around in the ordinance codes, he found a little section that says the city clerk is supposed to earn as much as the council members, the Miami Herald reports.Which is great…
Times are tough in Miami-Dade. But before Mayor Carlos Gimenez proposed closing 13 libraries to cut costs, he hired Genaro “Chip” Iglesias to be his chief of staff and “deputy mayor,” at the price tag of $225,000 per year. And blogger Elaine de Valle reports there could be more deputy…
