When Miriam Tucker attended a fundraiser luncheon celebrating the Tampa Women's Club 65th year, she didn't expect that it all might end in a colonoscopy. Life is full of shitty, yet amazing, surprises.
Florida Considers Ridiculous Ban on Race- and Sex-Selective Abortion
A group of almost comically deluded and ineffectual legislators in Florida are bringing up sex- and race-selective abortions in the state. They make the same ol' specious arguments about abortion providers of intentionally targeting black people with such conviction, you have to stop for a minute to fact check their…
Florida’s Gross Giant Snail Problem Is Getting Way Out of Hand
Let’s start here: fucking Florida. What a wet, wild, and all around icky place it is, you know? Florida is basically a big swamp surrounded by sand and populated almost exclusively with retired people, drug lords, rednecks, and dangerous exotic animals that entrepreneurial Floridians have decided to import into the…
Politics As Usual: Florida Mayoral Candidate Threatened with…
Anna Pierre, a mayoral candidate in North Miami, says she's being targeted by Haitian Vodou practitioners who want to intimidate her into dropping out of the race. Pierre—who is originally from Haiti—says she's found feathers, scraps of food, candles, and little dolls stuck full of pins outside her office door. "I know …
A New Bill in Florida Would Make Non-Consensual ‘Revenge Porn’ a Felony
A new bill in Florida would make it a felony to publish online nude photos or videos of a person without his or her permission and with his or her identifying information. That's a step in the right direction towards slowing the proliferation of the exceedingly icky "revenge porn" Internet sewage spill that has made…
Florida Woman Wins $10,000 Burger Scholarship
Luciana Page, a culinary student at Florida International University, has her husband to thank for her newfound fame. According to The Miami Herald, he was the one who suggested she enter her burger recipe to Red Robin's Savory Scholar Contest. Page, who is of Korean heritage, created a BBQ burger with Asian flavors:
Florida School District CFO in Trouble for Secret Porn Tumblr, But Is…
We should start a game called fake or Florida? It'll be very fun. I'll provide three insane stories and you'll tell me whether they actually happened in Florida or I made them up (or stole them for dystopian novels). It'll be a total crap shoot because there's nothing I (or Octavia Butler) could dream up that'd be…
