The last thing in the world Riptide wants to do is step on the feet of Rick at South Florida Daily Blog, but we have a corporate mandate to do some sort of weekly roundup of local blogs. Not that we don’t love acknowledging Miami’s many fine bloggers, but we’re…
When Bush first took office way back in 2001, the Dow Jones was at 10,587.59 (Clinton, by the by, took office with the Dow at 3,241.95). Today at noon, during the final moment of Dubya’s presidency, the Dow was at 8,128.14, marking the first time since Carter that a president…
Our very own Gus Garcia-Roberts is in Washington, D.C., and once he escapes the tens of thousands of Obamaniacs in the Mall, he’ll be filing something from the very epicenter of the most historic thing ever to happen. Meanwhile, here’s the take from inside a conference room at the Picasso…
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The hunger-strike moms ended their strike over the proposed education cuts. [CBS4]The Coral Ridge megachurch will have a new pastor, and he promises to keep politics away from the pulpit. [Herald]Your racist uncle was right! Hell did freeze over! But it’s a nice change of pace, really. [CBS4]Dick Cheney will…
We know today isn’t a national holiday, but it sure feels like one. So just in case you are stuck at work, rather than freezing your ass off in Washington D.C., Hulu is streaming the presidential inauguration live. So sit back, relax and press play. Just make sure to turn…
Today is historic. We know. The “h” word has been uttered over and over again since Barack Obama first announced that he was running for the U.S. Presidency. Today’s inauguration is a magical moment, a changing of the guard. But it also means that the nearly 2 years of political…
Riptide is not much of an economist, then again who is these days? But, if I’m following the logic correctly, the reason we have so many tax cuts and loopholes for the über-rich is because theoretically they’re supposed to inject their extra money directly back into the economy and create…
For weeks now, I’ve been toying with the idea of posting all of the achievements of George W. Bush on his last full day in office. Of course this was going to be satirical in nature. Noting things like how we haven’t had a terrorist attack on our soil since…
Have you read Joshua Ferris’ Then We Came To The End? It’s about the slow, corporate death of a Chicago advertising firm after a string of lay-offs, stupid business decisions, and personal tragedy. If not, you should. Because it is also now your life. According to an IHS Global report,…
Why did the Miami Herald let Joan Fleischman take a buyout and retire when she is the only person at that paper who continually brings it? And by bring it, I mean bring the most important celebrity STD stories to the Ayem Papyrus. This weekend she dug into the divorce…
Despite the fact that just about every reasonable person on either side of the debate who read the American Life League’s breathless press release about Krispy Kreme doughnut’s liberal use of the word “choice” in a press release thought they must be either insane or joking, ALL persisted. And now,…
We aren’t exactly a fan of the cold weather. Every time someone says, “I love when Miami gets chilly,” we resist the urge to hurt them. We don’t live in Miami because of the cold weather — in fact, that’s why we live in Miami, because it doesn’t get cold…
“Let us realize that history has thrust upon us an indescribably important destiny –to complete a process of democratization which our nation has developed too slowly, but which is our most powerful weapon for world respect.” This might have come from Barack Obama’s Tuesday inaugural address. It didn’t. America’s second…
Funniest. SNL. Skit. Ever. Favorite part, when actress Rosario Dawson, who plays a Cuban lady, says she bought a Rumsfeld portrait not knowing who it was. It looked like her “Tio Pepe.”…
The Port of Miami tunnel isn’t dead yet, and may be back on in April. [Herald]The Florida Speaker of the House took a job with a school he’s steered money towards which may not be ethical, and he’s basically the worst speaker ever. [Herald]Thieves in Hialeah broke into a Best…
As the world collectively crosses its fingers that a second cease fire talk will work in Gaza — and raging South Florida protests fade into tepid peace rallies — a temporary truce in the middle east doesn’t seem so far away. But in Miami another battle is boiling. This past…
Okay, so being mayor of any city is pretty much being a professional schmoozer: attend a few balls, galas and fundraisers a week, bequeath a few keys to the city, glut yourself on cubed cheese and champagne, get re-elected, repeat. Riptide’s resigned to that- but it sort of rubs us…
Some fanatical pro-life group got itself all worked up because Krispy Kreme dared to use the word “choice” in some dumb Inauguration promo. This weekend I choose to eat one Krispy Kreme doughnut for every page view that post received. I will probably be dead by Saturday. Meanwhile the Hollywood…
The Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine is the premier ophthalmology center in America, and recently made this stunning discover: taking a paintball straight the eye — apparently not so good. In the February issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology Dr. Kyle…
Circuit City, the nation-wide electronic retailer, is unplugging, and closing down all 567 of its American stores, including the one in the Shops at Midtown. Midtown has already weathered the loss of Linen-N-Things, and now Circuit City will leave another big chunk of unoccupied real estate. We held up Midtown…
There really is something in the water lately that makes our pro sports teams stop being such gawd-awful municipal embarrassments. Last year, the Heat had its worse season since its inaugural year, which didn’t help to ease the pain we were experiencing after the Fins’ 1-15 season. Things have turned…
