Play the lottery, and you too could be a dickwad. What the Florida Lottery Needs: Tougher OddsOfficials with the Florida Lottery are on a statewide tour to promote the fact that Florida is joining the multistate Powerball game. In fact, the folks who bring you your favorite scratch-off tickets will…
You could be there for Lindsay’s next embarrassment! So you’ve opened the presents and done all your dreaming about sugar plums, which is probably what the kids are calling some kind of messed up pill these days. Now your brain moves on to the next challenge: how to spend New…
Channel 10 Solves Problem of Pesky Porn Bus Handing Out CashChannel 10 has this whole team of reporters who do nothing but go around and solve people’s problems. And recently, Local 10 Problem Solvers tackled this burning question: Who’s behind that van of dudes who go around and pay women…
Our correspondent goes undercover. Maybe you’ve seen one of these Broward County buses around town that are wrapped with advertisements that describe Islam as being the religion of Abraham, Jesus, and Mohammed. “Got Questions? Get Answers!,” the ads promise. Considering that the threat of radical Islam has been described as,…
Who’s the Crook? The issue of overcrowding in our aptly-named ” criminal justice” system (“Pretrial Sellout,” Bob Norman, December 18) is, if you forgive me for reaching into the depths of The Twilight Zone, probably related to the fact that in this Land of the Free there are 2.6 million…
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents much of west Broward, is an increasingly high-profile operative in the national Democratic Party. During crunch time in the presidential election this year, Wasserman Schultz was a much-sought-after talking head, particularly with regard to the meandering assertions of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The…
Without a word, blue-eyed, leather-skinned Mark Clemons steers a camouflage electric golf cart down a lonesome, bumpy dirt road about 25 miles south of Lake Okeechobee. The only sound for miles is wind whistling through saw grass and spiky palmettos. A weak winter sun has barely been up 15 minutes…
If only every town in Florida had a casino. Then our little tykes in need might have some Christmas dough to spend and sports teams to join.The lucky little ones in Hallandale Beach have Gulfstream Park, the horse racetrack and casino. Although they’re not yet old enough to play poker or…
Take a Break This Holiday Season From Being a DoucheThe Florida Highway Patrol began a crackdown on aggressive drivers today at 12:01 a.m., meaning we’ve all go to take a break from driving like a douche nozzle. FHP Colonel John Czernis explained the operation in this press release. Here’s an…
Congrats to the Broward Sheriff’s Office for nailing Gypsy con artist Gina Marie Marks, aka Regina Milbourne, on fraud charges. I knew about this case, which was worked up by Palm Beach private detective Bob Nygaard, for a few weeks and it looks like BSO acted quickly and decisively. You…
Psychic on the Lam Totally Called ItThe Broward Sheriff’s Office is on the hunt for Gina Marie Marks, a psychic who they say ripped off her clients by promising to cleanse their souls. First off, the last time I went to Gina Marie Marks for a soul cleansing, she totally…
So maybe pouring a bucket of cold water on the Super Bowl hopes of Miami Dolphin-dom wasn’t the most sensitive holiday message. Lest I forget “the reason for the season” I offer this tale of holiday generosity. A rags to riches man from Canton, Ohio, who during the worst of…
Nope. Fact is, this team isn’t nearly as good as its record suggests. Overrated? Maybe, but you can’t really over-rate a team that spent the previous season flirting with a record for professional football futility. So let’s try this: If next week the Dolphins defeat the New York Jets, then…
A wide receiver adept at catching passes in traffic isn’t very good at driving a car in it. At least not according to a Tamarac woman who says the suspended New York Giant and Lighthouse Point resident Plaxico Burress rear-ended her while he was driving on the Florida Turnpike. Compared…
I just learned a new and brilliant noun from urbandictionary.com. The word is Ponzi Crawl: A pub crawl that adds a new person to buy a round at each location. Each new person is promised that they will get free drinks at all the future bars if they buy this…
Looks like the Fort Lauderdale police have a case of suicide-by-cop on their hands. At around 2 a.m. this morning, officers responded to call about an attempted suicide in the northwest section of Fort Lauderdale. They arrived to find 18-year-old Jordan Christian wielding a knife. According to public information officer Frank Sousa, Christian charged the…
This past weekend, Florida’s First Lady made her first public appearance and she didn’t sound nervous at all. Asked what it’s like to be First Lady, Mrs. Crist said: “I love it. It’s a tremendous honor and privilege, and I enjoy obviously being with my wonderful husband, always.” She described…
The Weston Democrat and minority leader of the Florida House has had a hellish holiday season. A week ago, Sands opened Monday’s edition of the Palm Beach Post to a story about how he allegedly used Democrats’ willingness to give to the Florida Democratic Party as a basis for deciding…
… no woman would. Some of you already know what I’m talking about — anybody that saw the front page of the Sun-Sentinel on Sunday. For those of you who didn’t, the entire page was dominated by a photograph of Broward County Commissioner Lois Wexler in her driveway picking up the…
The children of DCF.DCF Managers Use Racial Slurs That You’ll Need to Look UpEmployees at the Department of Children and Families office in Tallahassee apparently like to throw around racial insults. An internal DCF audit found that six employees, even supervisors, were throwing around words, like “the word ‘N -…
By now, almost nothing can shock us about Hollywood (Florida) news. Not a dead body turning up in a Federal Highway hotel. Been there. Not a dirty cop, nor a public official hit with criminal indictment. Been there and there. Nothing would have shocked us…except this. And this.Yep, it’s good…
Outgoing Sunrise Mayor Steven Feren, who is leaving office next month to take a judgeship, is proving once and for all that’s he’s unfit for public office. The mayor’s recent actions have been disgraceful. He is, right now, scrambling to try to get his fellow Sunrise commissioners to vote to ensure him an…
