Aging news guy. Reporter since 1969. Spent 41 years with the Miami Herald. Opinion wrangler since 1991. Rescued from obscurity by Sun-Sentinel, September, 2017.
The Disney feud, shanghaied immigrant flights, hyped-up voter fraud. If DeSantis is so brilliant at governing, why is he in constant need of Republican lawmakers to fix his miscalculations?
@Kasparov63
@RadioFreeTom
Back when Kennedy accepted Khrushchev insistence that there were no missiles in Cuba. "I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that Premiere Khrushchev was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today."
“No one is teaching your kids to be gay,” she told the room. “Sometimes, they just are gay. I have math to teach. I literally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay.”
If there’s a fourth wave coming — which isn’t unlikely— local governments, businesses and hospitals in Florida will be barred from instituting proven public health measures.
@NewsbySmiley
@BrowardVotes
My early voting place in Broward: two not-so-young women ahead of me were told that they might want to return to the booth and cast votes on the opposite sides of their ballots that they had unwitting left blank. In the crush of election day, I doubt there was time for such help
@Mdixon55
@GovRonDeSantis
Two years after Trumpsters screamed treason and theft when blue states adjusted voting parameters because of a killer pandemic
@realDonaldTrump
Just as the Prez apologized for birtherism, saying Ted's father killing JFK, mocking disabled reporter, belittling POWs, Gold Star families.
I wrote a half-dozen columns on the Biogenisis scandal but Scewball still astounded me, this melding of only-in-South Florida sleaze with the criminal audacity of Major League Baseball. I knew what was coming and was still muttering to myself, "This is fucking crazy."
Nina Totenberg reports that (1) the Chief Justice asked his colleagues to mask up out of respect for Sotomayor’s health concerns, (2) only Gorsuch refused, and (3) his refusal forced Sotomayor to participate in arguments and conference remotely.
@grantstern
Trump may discover that stiffing witnesses to his insurrection incitement ain’t quite the same as stiffing his construction subcontractors. But apparently he can’t stop himself.
@MarcACaputo
Whenever I feel neglected by my government, I find that pummeling a capitol police officer and evacuating my bowels in that hallways of America’s most revered building really, really makes me feel better about myself.
@GlennaWPLG
@WPLGLocal10
Could this be the same governor out to protect the rights of threatening, frothing at the (uncovered) mouth lunatics disrupting school board meetings?
@BrittanyWallman
Oil magnates, coal barons, seaside developers and Republican politicians share a common strategy on the matter of climate change: deny, delay, obstruct, make lots of money and die rich before the bill comes due.
Re-watched "Body Heat" and a line from Kathleen Turner reminded me that I still have something left that women, albeit fictional, find appealing. "You're not too smart," she said. "I like that in a man."