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It was Sun Tzu who suggested that “if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles,” but apparently Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle never read The Art of War, or much of any thing else that matter. Naugle has most certainly…

Ayers, on the extreme left. Arocena, on the extreme right. John McCain and Sarah Palin’s desperate attempt to try and denigrate Barack Obama for his tenuous connection to Bill Ayers has been wildly irresponsible. Not only are some supporters at Republican rallies suggesting that Obama himself is a terrorist and…

Former Hialeah Mayor and now congressional candidate Raul Martinez doesn’t come off too well on www.raulmartinez08.com. It points out that Martinez was convicted for extortion as Hialeah mayor in 1991. It also points out the uncanny resemblance between Martinez and Godfather character, Luca Brasi, whom we all know sleeps with…

Have a gander at this mash up from 23/6 of Rick Sanchez’s best moments so far from his new 3 p.m. CNN show. The one with a light speed pace where he tries to awkwardly integrate Twitter and Facebook into the presentation. It’s not even like “Breaking, we understand that…

More emails were released today in the ongoing Alberto Carvalho / Tania deLuzuriaga saga. These ones show deLuzuriaga coaching Carvalho on how to prepare for an interview for the top job of the Pinellas county school system. At this point deLuzuriaga’s journalism career is pretty much over, and Carvalho’s fate…

Panel finds the hiring of Carvahlo unethical. [Herald] Flood Advisory until 11:15am. [CBS4] The congressional candidates all got together for a forum at the former Parrot Jungle. Lots of squawking to be heard. [Herald] Joe Biden had an event in Estero yesterday and amazingly didn’t incite anyone into an anti-media…

Riptide can’t pay his rent. So he recently headed downtown to visit the guys who advise the county commission on building affordable housing. Weird. After you pass a sign that reads, “Lobbyists are required to register with the clerk of the board,” standing at the head of the table is…

Who’s a better judge of art: a prolific collector or a city code enforcer? The City of Miami hopes the Wynwood Art District might finally bring some hip to the downtown area. One of the scene’s anchors is the massive Margulies Collection at The Warehouse on NW 27th Street. Martin…

Prominent Miamians who take bribes, get divorced, or don women’s underwear in public need no longer fret that Joan Fleischman will find out. The Miami Herald’s gossip columnist is one of several newsroom staffers who have accepted buyouts. Her final “Talk of Our Town” column ran last weekend. “I am…

It started with a troubled security guard stealing college coeds’ underwear. It ended last month with the quiet resignation of the executive director of public safety and two top department officials at the second-largest Catholic university in Florida. “They swept this under the rug,” says Lindel Thomas, a former Barry…

It was just last week Newsweek was trying to tell us that Non-Cuban Hispanics were going to be the deciding factor in McCain and Obama’s battle for Florida. Now, Time is telling is us “nuh uh, it’s the young people who will decide.” If there is any key state where…

(Ed: Not actually the Frenchman in question.) Earlier this month, we brought you the tale of William Guinaraes and Laetitia Casareto, a handsome young couple from Bordeaux with an inspiring, borderline psychotic dream: walking from Miami to Ushuaia, the southernmost tip of Argentina. The couple, although strangely unperturbed about an…

Super bitch Anita Bryant led a successful campaign in 1977 to overturn a Dade County ordinance that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In 1998 the ordinance was reinstated, and citizens voted to keep it in 2002. Anita and her views seem silly now. Since the gay rights…

This economic situation is so bad you really can’t blame people for picking up spare change they find on the street. Unless that person is a cop on the scene of history’s most bizarre nickel-related traffic disaster. On September 17th a truck carrying $182,000 of nickels crashed on I-95 near…

Remember Tami Nantz, the Broward stay at home Mom who was featured on the front page of The Sun-Sentinel’s local section for starting a Pro-Sarah Palin blog? Bob Norman ripped The Sentinel for featuring the story so prominently, and then I had some weird two post break down over it…

Obligatory debate fact check. [USA Today] Democrats today are holding press conferences (at Parrot Jungle!) where they’re expected to make allegations claiming Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart was funneled money by an indicted Puerto Rican Senator. [Naked Politics] In blog land Babalu Blog is claiming Joe Garcia is a criminal for sending…

George Bush with big hair. And they say NPR is mild-mannered. Garrison Keillor recently proved that public radio hosts can rant just an emphatically — albeit with a bit more eloquence — as their conservative talk-show counterparts. His essay on Sarah Palin and this election’s determinedly forgetful Republican mindset, titled…

Can we hurry up and vote already? Ugh, we’ve still got 28 grueling days and two debates left. Luckily one of those debates goes down tonight. It’s in the town hall style format, where candidates are asked questions directly by undecided voters (there are still enough of those left to…

As you may know, brave American patriots John McCain and Sarah Palin are locked in a vicious race to the White House with Bill Ayers of the Unites States Terrorist Party and his running mate Katie Couric of the National Socialist Mass Media Party. We told you about Palin’s stop…

Speculation over who killed and dismembered a crocodile on University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus is still rampant. Some outsiders immediately theorized that it was part of a sick prank meant to send a message to one of the school’s athletic rivals, the UF Gators. But gossip on campus suggests…