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Sara Palin’s Cafeteria Christianity
Russell A. Pizer gives the once and future queen of reactionary Republicans a lesson in the Declaration of Independence and other spelling tips.
Why Is Flagler Being Mealy-Mouthed Over KKK Fliers?
How easy to pick at an obvious target like the KKK, and easier still to do it in language that commits to nothing more than fortune-cookie bromides. How meaningless too.
Flagler County Commission Statement on KKK and Diversity
The Flagler County Commission’s April 15, 2010 statement denouncing the KKK–without mentioning it by name.
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.
Lawrence: Flagler Tea Party’s Four Values–and Aims
Tom Lawrence, chairman of Palm Coast’s Tea Party movement, sums up the 4 values of the movement as it conceives itself locally, and its aims in the next six months.
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.
James Baldwin: A Talk to Teachers
James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers” from 1963 is an apt counterpoint to Florida lawmakers’ attempt, in 2010, to demolish public school teachers and replace the profession with Darwinian hostility.
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.
Teacher pay
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.
McCain Claims He’s No Maverick
John McCain is repudiating the branding he brandished for years on every campaign trail he doddered through.
Best of the Rest: April 6, 2010
A coal mine disaster in West Virginia, Elian Gonzalez at 16, end of jobless benefits, the Taliban’s desperation, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 5, 2010
Remembering Lawton Chiles’ walk, Giuliani’s revenge over Crist, Justice Stevens’ retirement, the return of forests, and more.
Philip Roth’s Great American Fart
Kids love farts, don’t they? Even today, with all the drugs and sex and violence you hear about on TV, they still get a kick, as we used to, out of a fart.
Best of the Rest: April 2, 2010
Clobbering Bright Futures again, clobbering parks and rec budgets, Obama at the Estefans, and the disgusting innards of Taco Bell.
Best of the Rest: April 1, 2010
Obama’s drilling gusher, the Florida Legislature’s latest privatization schemes, SeaWorld autopsies, spying dos and don’ts and more.
Best of the Rest: February 12-14, 2010
Tea party scenes,homophobia, the military and footballers, Palin’s media ban, and more.
Best of the Rest: February 8, 2010
Monday morning quarterbacking Sarah Palin’s tea party phoniness, Marco Rubio’s shilling for phonies, Nelson Mandela, the last great non-phony, and more.
Best of the Rest: February 4, 2010
Online sales taxes, Clarence Thomas at UF, Google gets in bed with the NSA, and more.
Best of the Rest: February 1, 2010
Deficits to the moon, end of the Moon shot, leaving behind No Child Left Behind, and more.
Best of the Rest: January 29-31, 2010
J.D. Salinger catches the final rye, Obama takes flack over Israel in Tampa, NASA and Alito take Obama’s flack, and free will gets a $4.4 million grant.
Best of the Rest: January 28, 2010
State of the Union recaps, the everyday whines of jihadists, filibuster chic, Holocaust propaganda and the latest from Frank Luntz.
Barack Obama: State of the Union Address, January 28, 2010
“We don’t quit. I don’t quit. Let’s seize this moment — to start anew, to carry the dream forward, and to strengthen our union once more,” Obama concluded in his first State of the Union speech.
Best of the Rest: January 27, 2010
Homophobe-bashing in Miami, FCAT-bashing in Tallahassee, Tebow-bashing everywhere, and more.
Best of the Rest: January 26, 2010
Cartoons over Haiti, bullying policies at St. Augustine’s movie theaters, Britain’s prison ships and Obama’s middle class agenda–and more.
Best of the Rest: January 22-25, 2010
Crist rediscovers his inner Everglades, a chimp in the middle of a custody battle
Best of the Rest: January 21, 2010
Florida’s worsening economy, pay lanes on I-4, tax breaks for Hollywood, Fox’s niggardly viewers, and more.
Best of the Rest: January 20, 2010
What else: Scott Brown’s upset in Massachusetts, military’s drilling in Florida, children’s online addiction, the anti-enlightenment and more.
Best of the Rest: January 19, 2010
What Publix isn’t doing for unemployment, why Jacksonville is going to pot, why gays are abandoning South Beach, and more.
Best of the Rest: January 18, 2010
Why John Yoo got the better of John Stewart, Tim Tebow’s quarterbacking for the dark side, papery tax in Florida, and more.
Beck Goes Lecter on Palin’s Glass Eyes
Sarah Palin’s round of Fox News foxholes landed her in Glenn Beck’s hole within obsequious distance of the Statue of Liberty (the Lady had no choice). The chat was vaguely lecherous.
Haiti Earthquake Photo Gallery
A 30-image photo gallery of the devastation following the 7.0 earthquake that demolished Haiti’s Port au Prince the afternoon of Jan. 12.
Best of the Rest: January 15-17, 2010
Playboy’s history, good news for Health News Florida, the bad news of big coal and big oil, and good riddance to Conan.
Best of the Rest: January 14, 2010
Florida’s $3 billion budget deficit, FPL and Progress Energy’s rate hike denials, an odd leap in Floridians’ education, and more.
Best of the Rest: January 12, 2010
Cold clobbers Florida crops, Rubio clobbers Crist, New Jersey wisens up on pot, and more.
Best of the Rest: January 11, 2010
On the fates of Rahm Emanuel, Ali Khamenei, Hitler, Progress Energy, and Florida’s cheap health insurer for the poor.
Best of the Rest: January 8-10, 2009
Why al-Qaeda is failing and winning, why the right-wing is going off the cliff, why Florida’s lawmakers are loons, and more.
Best of the Rest: January 7, 2010
Whaling, racists and crazy cops thrive, manatees, the poor and good sense don’t.
Best of the Rest: January 6, 2009
The GOP’s moderate troubles in Florida, the Dolphins’ latest tax scheming, the Marlins’ latest stitching, and the trouble with happy talk.
A Star So Big It’s Obese
Betelgeuse really is a big star. If placed at the center of our Solar System it would extend to the orbit of Jupiter.
Best of the Rest: January 5, 2010
Judges gone wild, Tasers gone wild, DUI lawmakers gone wild, and more wilderness.
Prohibition’s Binge of Sanctimony
On the history and stupidity of Prohibition, the 13-year binge of sanctimony that a minority of eugenics fans and anti-German racists imposed on the majority.
Best of the Rest: January 4, 2010
Red-light camera epidemic, citrus in Florida, Florida’s top environmental stories of the year, profiling’s return, and more.
Best of the Rest: January 1-3, 2010
Where it started going wrong for Crist, how Blackwater gets away with murder again, and the federal judiciary’s reefer madness.
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