UM is asking its individual schools to cut their budgets by at least 5 percent, and is considering pay freezes. [CBS4]Steve Rodriguez attempted to undress and possibly rape a woman in the parking lot at the International Mall. Now he’s in police custody. [NBC6]A baby alligator? In my pool? [NBC6]More…
Can you believe it is still Presidents’ Day? Can you believe nothing else exciting is happening today? Can you believe this is probably the 30th post you’ve see about this list (but look — we have a joke)? C-SPAN put out its historical rankings of every American president who served before…
It was a damn good weekend for the vanguard of the Bolivarian Revolution, Fidel Castro’s BFF Hugo Chavez.About 54 percent of Venezuelans on Sunday voted to remove term limits so that Chavez can run again for president in 2012 — and presumably well beyond, if Castro is really the role…
Former Gov. Jeb Bush sat down with the Wall Street Journal for a lil chitchat, and after getting it out of the way that he would never, ever want to be honored on President’s Day, he starts getting hyper-excited about the Swedish education system. “The idea that somehow Sweden would…
Today is the day we set aside every year to remember our presidents and what great men they surely must have been buy Egyptian cotton sheets at the department store’s two-for-one sale. Yes, it is Presidents’ Day. At first, I thought about putting together some sort of fun list of…
In our very important four-point treatise on netroots campaigning, we predicted “gay candidates will be the hot new netroots cause, just watch,” and now, right here in Florida, that theory will be put to the test. North Miami Mayor Kevin Burns will tomorrow officially kick off his campaign to seek the Senate seat…
Charlie Crist remembered he’s a Republican and is introducing tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts! [Herald]U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ordering the deportation of 30,000 Cubans. [NBC6]Daequan Cook is the best three-point shooter in the history of the entire world, and for that he was awarded a nice trophy…
Note to self: Valentine’s Day on the weekend sucks. At least we can avoid the shitty corporate holiday when it falls on a weekday, but it’s a little hard to do on a Saturday. The only thing we felt a couple of days ago was the urge to punch everyone…
This past September, two-piece English rock band the Kills were touring America, as rock bands tend to do, when their tour bus and driver went missing somewhere in L.A. The feds were called in and conducted a full-on search in the States and Mexico. The bus turned up in an…
Reporters are herd animals. That was made painfully clear last week when approximately 76 of us had the same idea: Hey, let’s go to that A-Rod park dedication thing Friday night. I mean, I can understand why news cameras were there — you can’t beat a local A-Roid/steroid segment at…
I know, this is late. But would you rather hear which V-Day activities I may have to suggest or show up at your lover’s doorstep with a dusty Whitman Sampler? Or a bag of shrimp you bought at a red light because the flower lady at the previous red light…
Remember our old friend Tasha Cunningham? She started DontDateHimGirl.com: the locally run website that allows women to anonymously dish about men they’ve dated. New Times wrote about the site extensively back in 2006. Well, DDHG wants some of this Chris Brown/Rihanna publicity too. The site just issued a press release…
This can’t come as a shock to anyone, can it? Surely even the most passionate Marlins fans in South Florida — all 500 of them — probably spit out some coffee on their Miami Herald this morning when they read the latest details on how much the new Fish stadium…
The last thing in the world I want is for a serious point I was trying to make about domestic abuse devolve into some pissing match with two radio jocks. The underlying subject matter is too serious. Enrique Santos left a long comment on the original post, and you should…
In their never ending quest to figure out the Internet, newspapers (us included!) are trying lots of new things. Well “new” to them anyway. The New York Times has a prototype for an “Article Skimmer” up. Headlines and ledes are placed in a grid, and using java technology readers skim…
In 2008 Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks was traded from the Suns to the Heat for Shaquielle O’Neal, barely a year latter the Heat are trading him out again for another O’Neal, according to AP. Jermaine O’Neal that is, along with his Toronto Raptors teammate Jamario Moon. Marion, a four…
Miami’s colony of sex offenders is a lot like a big, stubborn pimple on the nose of the city: Nobody likes it and yet it just keeps growing. So it’s no surprise that after nearly two years of policymakers ignoring the problem, it’s gotten uglier. In response, Miami city commissioners…
Perhaps the most shocking thing to come out of the whole sad Rihanna and Chris Brown abuse story is the public’s reaction, along with how many people are quick to quip that Rihanna surely must have done something to deserve it. The latest rumor is that Rihanna got herpes from…
Every month it seems Forbes puts out some dumb list of city rankings. Riptide always notes how dumb the list is, but posts about it anyway. Forbes appreciates any extra page views it gets, because that’s half the reason they do it, but at the end of the day, these…
City and county commissions are castng their final vote on the Marlins ballpark today. [CBS4]Charlie Crist is pleased as punch about the new version of the Stimulus Bill. [JustNews]Apparently, before a certain celebrity incident, people didn’t know that domestic abuse in younger relationships is a serious problem. Well, here’s another…
Valentine’s Day is Hallmark’s way of putting you in a headlock and forcing you to tell your significant other that you love him or her. Whether you actually L-word them or not, close to a billion valentines are sent each year so, you better fall the fuck in line, be…
This President Obama fellow has sure had a hard time filling his cabinet. After Gov. Richardson withdrew from consideration to be Commerce Secretary, Obama called on Republican Senator Judd Gregg to fill the slot. Turns out the Republican doesn’t see eye to eye ideologically with noted Socialist Barack Obama, and…
