Kent Sharples raids Daytona College fund to pay rock stars, Alex Sink is beating Scott, Obama is not as anti-business as he appears, Dali on “What’s My Line,” and much more.
The Live Wire
The Live Wire, September 23: Taj Mahals, Obama Shake-Ups and Gay Santas
Marco Rubio as Taj Mahal pasha, Mainland Coach Maronto resigns, police brutality on the elderly in Orlando, Harvey Firestein as gay Santa, septic tank emanations, Philip Roth on suicide, and more.
The Live Wire, Sept. 22: Senate Does in Gays (Again), Crist Does Disney
The Senate sticks it to gays in the military and to potential citizens, Charlie Crist’s Disney finances are murky, poverty as a conspiracy of fees, a firing at UF, and more.
The Live Wire, September 21: You Call This a Recovery?
False economic recovery, changing the rules of comp plan amendments, dead voters still active in Florida, how Florida wasted taxdollars in the stock-market, and more.
The Live Wire, Sept. 20: The Chamber of Commerce’s Ricky Scotty Hypocrisy
The Chamber of Commerce’s Scotty hypocrisy, Rick Scott’s fraudulent math, over 50 and facing permanent unemployment, madness at the Orlando Magic’s new arena, India’s prostitutes of god, and more.
The Live Wire Weekend Edition: Chief Chitwood’s Moron Moment
The Daytona police chief calls the Volusia sheriff a “moron,” Ginn defaults on another property, John Tanner enters the Daytona State College board follies, FedEx lays off in Lakeland and elsewhere–and raises its earnings outlook, and more.
The Live Wire: September 16, 2010
8 p.m. Update Live coverage of the Flagler Beach City Commission’s discussion on its next manager. Also: Competing congregations in Flagler Beach, but no demonstrations. Attention fired Bunnell cops: the Border Patrol is hiring. Florida is redistricting. NASA is going nowhere fast. Florida’s Energy Star program is hostage to GOP games. And more.
The Live Wire: September 15, 2010
1,000 Friends of Florida reverses course on the Hometown Democracy amendment, going “neutral”; Koran 101 at UF, why Palm Coast Data should worry, and more.
The Live Wire, Sept. 14: Cops Chase Drug Suspect Around Pine Lakes Parkway
Why you saw all those cop cars and flack-jacketed deputies around Pine Lakes Parkway this afternoon, Civil War reenactments coming to the Ag Museum, tripping seniors, scoping out bin Laden, and much more.
The Live Wire: September 13, 2010
Hurricane Igor update, UF’s drop to #10, an ad agency managing a state-funded pregnancy care system, the UF Alligator defends Koran-hating Terry Jones’s right to free speech, Florida is number 1 in corruption, and more.
Taking Stockman: How Nixon, Reagan, Bush and their GOP Demolished the Economy
David Stockman, Reagan’s former budget director, sums up how his GOP destroyed the American economy through a bogus faith in markets and false promises of fiscal discipline.
Best of the Rest: July 11, 2010
Mark Twain’s latest, Harper Lee’s Mockingbird at 50, the problem with journalists, Florida’s war on the homeless, and more.
Best of the Rest: June 27, 2010
Lousy Duval schools, lousy class-size rules, lousy Gen. McChrystal, and more.
Best of the Rest: June 6, 2010
FCAT scores delayed, Miami’s naked bike ride, Crist’s oily tan, and more.
Best of the Rest: June 4-6, 2010
Oil slicks Florida tourism, Bill McCollum’s homophobia, Lawton Chiles’ inpedendence, good and bad bullying, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 3, 2010
Jim Greer’s felonious corruptions, how to blame Obama for the Gulf spill, Ayn Rand meets Charles Murray, the pleasures of imagination, and much more.
Best of the Rest: May 28-30, 2010
What else: oil spill plumes, Crist vetoes, Boortz rumors, boys and teen sex, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 24, 2010
BP skates by as Obama lets it, Ayan Hirsi Ali is back, John Mica’s two faces, the crap about cougars, and more.
Why Tea Parties Are More Bunkers than Bunker Hill
The tea party’s booting out of Utah Sen. Robert Bennett from his state’s GOP primary, despite Bennett’s extreme conservative credentials, is emblematic of a movement in the grip of its own delusions.
Best of the Rest: May 21-23, 2010
Oil begins to wash up on Florida beaches, a father rapes his daughter and kills himself, Hobbes returns, Democrats love Rand Paul, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 20, 2010
Florida woes: oil slick, FCAT, foreclosures, bankruptcies, plus living wage arguments and the latest on Koestler’s suicide.
Best of the Rest: May 18, 2010
Marco Rubio doesn’t know his Arizona, BP’s latest insult to Florida, Elvis Costello won’t go to Israel, what to think of the Loop current, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 13, 2010
Duke Ellington, race and music in America, Kagan and Thurgood Marshall, bikini meter-maids in Australia, and why you can’t trust the Wall Street Journal anymore, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 12, 2010
Children on trial for rape, Crist renounces the party that raped him, Ginn suits redux, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 10, 2010
PBS dumbs down, literary theory still doesn’t make sense, Florida sues BP, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 7-9, 2010
Conservatives fail to take over UK Parliament, the dome meets the oil slick, the US Senate votes for Wall Street, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 6, 2010
GOP wants its Crist money back, oil slick gambles, novel library censorship, we told you so: Progress Energy’s latest deceptions, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 5, 2010
Tea party’s racism problem, BP’s cheapness, Jacksonville’s intolerance, black holes, Iranian nukes, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 4, 2010
Crist goes on auction, Disney’s Tower of Terror wins even in death, the Gulf’s dying turtles, David Foster Wallace, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 3, 2010
It’s all about the Gulf oil spill, plus Bill Maher’s Brazilian fact-checking, Hitler in Arizona, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 30-May 2, 2010
Bush writes a book, Florida gets oil-slicked, Arizona keeps going nuts, and more on Knut Hamsun, Voltaire and reading in a digital age.
The Liberation of Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist, never foreign to transgression, transgressed what’s left of the Republican Party, which has no room for moderates.
Best of the Rest: April 29, 2010
An oil slick worse than Exxon Valdez spill, Charlie Crist goes independent, the Florida Legislature goes insane, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 28, 2010
Florida has a budget, Obama against the press, oil slick sprawls over Florida, Israel as Arizona, fair use as profit, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 27, 2010
Drill baby drill turns to spill baby spill, the end of statute limitations on sex crimes, the end of respect for arts teachers, Islamophobia in Jacksonville, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 26, 2010
On sperm counts,coal’s dirty secrets, Charlie Crist’s soap opera, Florida’s latest assault on Medicaid, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 23-25, 2010
The GOP’s warning to Crist backers, an oil rig fire’s fumes over Florida’s drilling plans, South Park censored for Muslims’ sake, and more teacher-student sex.
Best of the Rest: April 22, 2010
Crist rhymes with centrist, racism at the Ritz-Carlton, Sex and the anal city, Salman Rushdie’s computer secrets, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 21, 2010
Crist’s disappearing GOP, the FBI and IRS investigate Rubio, scud missiles in Lebanon, blasting oil rigs in Louisiana, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 20, 2010
Crist is urged to quit the Senate race, environmentalists are mourning a lousy legislative session, why few trust governments, why Swedes live longer, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 19, 2010
Jeb Bush as Florida’s Vladimir Putin, Charlie Crist as Florida’s Shakespeare, Healthy Start in jeopardy, Publix’s cheapness, and more.
Best of the Rest Disclaimer & FAQ
Discralimer and frequently asked questions on how Best of the Rest is put together, its aims, and so on.
Best of the Rest: April 16-18, 2010
The fallout from Crist’s veto of SB6, Obama sees stars again, how Bush’s CIA destroyed evidence, the greatness of John Paul Stevens, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 15, 2010
Charlie Crist’s future,the fate of Senate Bill 6,Tea Party brewers, Islamophobia in Jacksonville, sex lives of famous women, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 14, 2010
War crimes and atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan,more merit-pay SB6 follies, Huckabee’s homophobia, monument mania, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 13, 2010
More pressure on Crist over Senate Bill 6,an autistic child goes missing, school lunches slim down,poverty in America, pedophile priests, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 12, 2010
Crist takes Florida’s pulse on teacher bill, spills and drilling in the Gulf, GOP scandals, Gandhi’s sex life, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 9-11, 2010
Merit-pay follies in Florida, feral cats in San Francisco’s CSI lab, another V-22 Osprey crash kills US troops, and the problem with Dr. Oz.
Best of the Rest: April 8, 2010
Freaks and furies over merit-pay bill, states against health care reform, Casey Anthony’s letters, painting organsms at UF, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 7, 2010
Florida’s war on teachers, gambling with Indians, remembering civics education, Obama’s supreme court odysseys, and more.