Hint: Look in the Mirror To all my American readers, excuse me as I address my foreign ones, those of you who are visiting the Miami area (thanks, enjoy your stay) and have happened upon a copy of this paper (again, thanks), or who are reading this column online from places far distant– We Americans [...]
We Call it Abraxas — Demain With the economy in the tank, our credit rating downgraded for the first time ever, and presidential approval ratings somewhere south of the non-existent border, it’s good to know that it’s the fault of Bush and those uncivil Tea Party terrorists (as opposed, say, to the Wisconsin unions). Thing [...]
A City is Not for Traffic But for People, And the Demand is Not for Parking But for Access to a Location Time to cue up the neenee noonoo neenee noonoo Twilight Zone music ‘cause we’re gonna talk bicycle lanes and Alton Road again. A recent Miami Herald article that extols DecoBikes but questions its [...]
Somebody Remind the New Times They’re a Paper, Not Kingmakers There are few things I detest more than the maneuvers of a history revisionist. Already, just months after the county recall vote, here comes the New Times to as much as wag their finger at us and instruct us we were wrong to fire Carlos [...]
Look out for… In questioning the salaries of the deputy mayors recently hired by Mayor Carlos Gimenez in her online “Complaining about Gimenez’s staff is misplaced” (http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/30/2337905/complaining-about-gimenezs-staff.html) column, Myriam Marquez opines that perhaps communist Cuba’s “warped mindset” has infiltrated “the body politic of Miami-Dade County”. Why else would anyone find upset over “talented folks with [...]
Betcha Never Heard This Reason Before Amid all the cover stories on the subject that have run in this paper in the last year, and after a 9,000-signature petition was delivered to City Hall earlier this month by a group favoring decriminalization and demanding the issue be put once and for all before Beach voters, [...]
…benefits and other dysfunctions that’re costing us plenty We know he’s worried about his reelection—shouldn’t he also be worried over the country?—but Obama’s “shared sacrifice” statement—let ‘em eat peas; meaning all must suffer—is as risible as that “shovel ready” remark. (The only thing shovel-ready is what’s flowing down the Potomac.) We think most of that [...]
Talk about parochial politicians who don’t get it Where else but here does Oddsville meet Twinkle City? What goes on can make you walk away, shaking your head and muttering. Take, for example, the latest professed reason to diss bikes—a concern over “safety”—when honest would’ve said parking. Here’s how it all went down. A commission [...]
Who Told You It Was Legal, Matti? Names, Please William Grant, Jr., 60, African-American, ex-Marine, draws disability income that affords him occasional visits to Miami’s VA hospital for medical attention. A pension in his future? Not in this lifetime. Mya, 50-ish, Caucasian, was earning a meager income until she was sidelined with a broken leg [...]
The Doctor is In – And Look Who’s Here to See Him DOC: Mr. Campbell, glad to see you made it. Any idea why you’re here today? LUTHER CAMPBELL: Fuck no, but I’m sure you’re gonna tell me why I’m in a shrink’s office. DOC: Actually, I prefer the term “psychiatrist,” but you can [...]
Sometimes the abyss looks back Well, there they go again… proving this time that some cops shouldn’t have a driver’s license, let alone a gun and a badge. But we’re gonna pull rank here. It’s easy to pile on the police because they make it so easy. But they do interface between us and the [...]
Where the Twilight Zone meets the Outer Limits We see where adherents of that Religion of Peace (blessings be upon them) recently plotted to carry out a dastardly act in Seattle. Clearly, Islam is conflicted, instructing the cleansing of oneself left-handedly, while finding bacon unclean. <Sigh> Obama’s promise of “transcendence” has turned out more phony [...]
