Is there anyone out there who still hasn’t decided whether they should think Bush’s presidency was an eight year disaster or if they can twist their brain around enough to pretend otherwise? For any stragglers The Bush Legacy Tour, a project of Americans United for Change, is making a stop…
Expectations for Sarah Palin’s performance at tomorrow’s Vice Presidential debate couldn’t be higher. What, with her masterful handling of Katie Couric’s questioning, and the complete and total support of rational conservatives everywhere, the debate oughta be a slam dunk for this talented politician. In fact Riptide predicts that we will…
via VH1 RW You see that episode of Brooke Knows Best? The one with the game nerd? Yeah me neither, but thanks to the internet all reality TV is recapped multiple times. Yes, people regularly blog about Brooke Knows Best (how…delightful). So, yadda yadda yadda, some video gamer friend of…
via SI Enough about what our congressional delegates and candidates think about the financial crises. Is Ileana Ros-Lehtinen a three time Pro Bowl selection? Does Mario Diaz-Balart have a Super Bowl ring? Did Raul Martinez deliver the Patriot’s first regular season loss in 21 games? Nope. So what does Dolphins…
Jay-Z + Obama = Party in Bayfront It’s a celebration, bitches! The good folks at Obama For President just made your week. Jay-Z will play a free show in Bayfront Park Amphitheater this Sunday at 8:30 p.m. to drum up voter registration for his favorite presidential candidate. A quick call…
The chances for a revised bailout bill to pass the senate are looking good, but the chances for the bill to pass the last time were looking good too. So don’t hold your breath. [CBS 4] Charlie Crist made his second Supreme Court appointment, tapping First District Court of Appeal…
In 2000, Cuban-Americans represented 70 percent of Florida’s Hispanic electorate. Today they make up less than half that thanks to a large influx of new voters originally from Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela and other Latin American countries. Unlike Cubans, these other Latins tilt towards the Democratic Party. But this new…
Olmar Morales, an 18 year-old Stuart, Florida, man, claims that a roving gang of thin, blond, bra-less woman clad only in overalls surrounded him, roughed him up, and took $100. No, he wasn’t recounting his first prostitution experience with his buddies, he actually reported it to police. Morales said the…
via Function X “San Francisco, Miami and Los Angeles are the most connected cities, based on home networking adoption, according to new research from MultiMedia Intelligence. A wired or wireless home network allows consumers to connect multiple PCs and printers, and to share Internet access among computers.” — Business Wire…
Sarah Silverman isn’t the only noted political scientist who thinks this election could again be decided by Jewish grandparents. The Daily Show sent senior senior correspondent Wyatt Cenac down to an unidentified part of Florida to watch the debate with a group of the retirees. Things got meshu’geh. Most of…
Illustration via Rolling Stone From Panamanian dictator extraordinaire Manuel Noriega to countless drug warlords to what seems like half of the city’s politicians, Miami is justly famous for having the most twisted federal trials in the nation. It’s already clear after opening statements in downtown Miami this morning that we…
There’s a beautiful progression underway to create more accessible routes for bicyclists around the City of Miami. I’ve been singing my praises to the Coral Way and Miami Avenue projects and wistfully dream of one day seeing a complete circuit from Downtown to the Grove. Now, amidst the jam-packed speculation…
With the NBA season a few weeks away comes yesterday’s news that Randy Pfund has resigned his position as general manager of the Miami Heat. All the right things were said via statements from both parties. Pfund thanked owner Mickey Arison and team president Pat Riley for “the opportunity.” Riley,…
[edit: earlier this post was comically confused, I apologize, I had my coffee, and everything is in order now] That is, if it was ever really on. Negotiations between Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, his challenger Raul Martinez and CBS 4 have stalled, and the question of whether the two will meet…
Some guy punched a shark to save his dog. [Herald] A new reports says Everglades restoration is moving too slow. Next time we should just adapt stronger environmental regulations, and that we won’t mess up anything enough where we have to spend billins of dollars restoring it. [Herald] Authorities rounded…
via ONTD “Karu & Why Are You Opening Back Up Again?” – Jose Duran, Miami New Time’s Crossfade Blog, September 09, 2008. “Karu and Why?” – Lesley Abravanel, Miami Herald’s Scene in the Tropics Blog, September 23, 2008. “Karu? Y?” – Kris Conesa, Miami Sun Post, September 25, 2008. I’m…
Excuse me while I get all up in FiveThirtyEight.com’s lap again today, but the poll nerds are looking at the polls, as they are inclined to do, and floating the theory that congressmen from close swing districts doomed the bailout. Well whadaya know? Miami’s trio of Republican, hyphenated named congresspeople…
This whole bailout thing failed again! I just admitted I don’t have enough business sense to properly judge the outcome of a cheerios restaurant let alone pass any informed judgments on something this large (I have all my money, all $5, invested in a Beanie Baby collection. Actually it’s at…
I didn’t inherit the business sense gene from my parents (which is why my job title is currently “blogger” and not “third generation entrepreneur”), so it comes as no surprise that The Cereal Bowl is success. When the burgeoning chain opened its first cereal cafe across from my alma mater…
Since it became an Olympic Sport in 1988, America has never won a medal in table tennis. It’s the kind of thing that makes Eagles cry. All we really have to our credit is making the definitive movie of the sport, Balls of Fury. But that’s the effort of Hollywood,…
Five Thirty Eight, along with Real Clear Politics, is one of the two places on the web to go for easily digestible explanations of what all these polling numbers mean, and recently on their projected electoral map the state of Florida turned from a faint hue of blush red to…
With this $700 billion bailout of Wall Street, we move even further towards some sort of bastard system of corporate socialism. Almost no one is pleased that we’ve come to this, but almost everyone agrees that it is necessary. A few voices in Congress to the extremes of both sides…
