Naugle Easily Confused

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…

A Tale of Two “Terrorists”

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…

Martinez Gets Slimed by a Terrorist

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…

Five Things We All Can Learn From The Carvalho Scandal

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…

News Roundup

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…

Lobbyist Ron Book Tries to Tackle the Housing Crisis

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…

City of Miami Bullies Martin Margulies

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…

Miami Herald Says Bye to Joan Fleischman

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…

Panty Thief Sparks Security Meltdown at Barry University

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…

The Homophobe Amendment Will Leave Pie In All Our Faces

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…

Brevard Deputy Under Investigation For Thieving Nickels

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…

Our Favorite Palin Mom Blogger On Anderson Cooper 360

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…

News Roundup

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…

NPR host Garrison Keillor rips Sarah Palin and the GOP a new one

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…

Live Blogging the Second Presidential Debate

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…

Palin Supporters Erupt Into Racist, Anti-Media Rampage

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…

Fisher Island is the Most Expensive Zip Code In The Country

Another month, another overly detailed Forbes list. This one deal’s with the country’s most expensive zip codes, and Fisher Island’s 33109 came out on top this year. The average price for a home on the private island is $3,850,000. The zip also came in fourth on a supplementary list of…

A New Type of Fantasy Football League

Does not Miami deserve a football team that can bring us true glory, and not just the occasional feel good win? At the very least a team who would be enjoyable to watch whether they won or not. Enter The Miami Caliente (uh, The Miami “Hot”?), one of the inaugural…

UM Students Blame FSU For Crocodile Death

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…