Ralph De La Cruz, who had a column with the Sun-Sentinel for more than seven years, wasn’t given the opportunity to write a farewell (his final column, which was about farting, actually ran this weekend). So he made his goodbye here in a post below. Some of it: I find it embarrassing that we do…
This February, 47-year-old Cezar Mancao went to the Philippine consulate in Fort Lauderdale to give a sworn affidavit. When the contents of his testimony were leaked this month to a Philippine news outlet, no one here seemed to notice, and nothing about it was reported in the U.S. press. His…
It’s official: your monitor, cell phone, toaster, and portable Simon computer game are slowly murdering you.That’s according to Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter, who recently signed this proclamation making next month Electromagnetic Sensitivity Awareness Month. Her proclamation, post-dated for May 1, declares:Whereas, as a result of global electromagnetic pollution, people…
Davie Police Officer Stephen Kenneth Olenchak stands accused of drugging his wife and a teenaged girl so he could then rape the girl while his wife was zonked out. The happens after the they all watched Big Love on HBO (this is impossible to make up). It’s sort of like he was directing his own…
Once upon a time, Sunrise Middle School had such a good reputation that some parents considered it better than private school. It is the only middle school around with a Montessori program. It has a gifted program. There’s an accelerated group called the “Golden Hammers” (like other school groups, it’s…
Of all the thorny, polarizing, and controversial subjects that a state legislator must handle, Sen. Nan Rich probably didn’t think she’d have to explain the logic behind a bill that makes bestiality illegal. And to be fair, she doesn’t have to explain it to anyone — everybody else, it seems,…
The bill that would have overhauled tattoo regulation in Florida is dead. The two factions of state tattooists, who had earlier this month waged an epic, expletive-laden battle in the comments thread of this Juice post, are now on the same team, or soon to be. And together, they will…
Judge Larry Seidlin is setting up his defense for the elderly abuse complaint lodged against him — and it appears to be another variation of “I’m the victim here.” Seidlin’s wife, Belinda, spoke with a staffer at TMZ.com after the national gossip website followed the Pulp report below, saying that “she and Larry…
With Charlie Crist looking more and more like the 2010 Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, there’s been an uptick in intensity between the pair who might be the finalists in a race to replace him.The Florida Democrats think they’ve gotten some traction by tweaking Republicans for waste. Some of their…
During Monday night’s segment about his appearance in Palm Beach (and the subsequent protests), Bill O’Reilly had his old friend, Wendy Murphy (pictured left) on the show to go over just how evil the evil liberals who don’t like O’Reilly’s comments about rape victims really are. Their conclusion: very evil. But…
Mostly as a comment cleaner, I’m starting this new post. So far the news from the Sun-Sentinel has been a bit less awful than anticipated. There are less than ten confirmed layoffs and they don’t seem to have come very heavily in the area that everyone seemed to expect (copy editors and page…
The Marlins will open their season in 2012 with a new stadium in Little Havana, meaning fans in Broward and Palm Beach counties who used to go to Dolphins Stadium will forget we have major-league baseball in South Florida.Being a complete idiot of a baseball fan, I’ll be there. Here’s…
South Florida’s economy depends on tourism dollars, so it’s chagrining indeed to read this report from Steve Dahl, the talk radio pioneer who for decades has shared his everyman sensibility with Greater Chicago.But Dahl was recently in Boca Raton, and in a column published today by the Chicago Tribune –…
The city of Largo is looking for an alleged con man who’s got it all. The bitchin’ nickname, “Plasma Pat.” The elegantly simple, three-step scam: 1) pretend to be a Wal-Mart employee, 2) offer customer deal on a plasma TV, 3) pocket cash. And he’s an insufferable braggart — Plasma…
On May 18, National Football League owners will congregate at some swanky Fort Lauderdale hotel to decide, among other things, whether they should add regular season games to what is currently a 16-game schedule.The USA Today reports that one influential member of that fraternity, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, wants 18…
In a disturbing development in the Larry Seidlin saga, the judge now faces a complaint of elderly abuse from the niece and caretaker of the elderly woman he has already been accused of financially exploiting.Corine Kasler, who is in town visiting 83-year-old Barbara Kasler, says she filed a complaint against Seidlin on…
Don’t combine that care with public corruption…
Compromise is what distinguishes the effective, conscientious governments from the dysfunctional ones, and the lack of it has been a drag on the Florida Legislature for some time. One would think that this year’s gaping, $6 billion budget hole would make compromisers out of the stubbornest souls. Instead, legislators are…
Some important background on last night’s Heat game: Before last night, Dwyane Wade had never beaten the Indiana Pacers in Conseco Fieldhouse. After last night, same deal. But it was close: 90-88. Wade had the second-worst shooting game of his career; it included missing the final shot of the game…..
When NFL team owners meet in Fort Lauderdale in May, they will decide whether the Miami Dolphins will soon become the Wackenhut Security Services Miami Dolphins. Now, yes, I did take this story up a couple of levels. But what the team owners will be discussing is putting logos on…
A New York City-based freelance writer says he was stiffed out of $1,150 by Howard Needle, publisher of the now-defunct Cravings Palm Beach, a luxury goods magazine based in Boca Raton. Scott Rose says that he had a contract from Needle to be paid 50 cents per word and that…
