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Danation: Florida Atlantic University, GEO Group, and Protest in the Age of Social Media

For those of you who haven’t read my bio at the bottom of my blog posts, let me state up front that I am gainfully employed by Florida Atlantic University. Because of this, and because I write heavily opinionated articles here at Salty Eggs, I haven’t had a lot to say about some notable local [...]

You’re Not Special (Though Rush Limbaugh Totally Is)

Everyone has gone appropriately bonkers over the commencement address delivered by English teacher David McCullough, Jr., to this year’s graduates of frou-frou Wellesley High School in Massachusetts. The Daily Beast, the Boston Globe, CNN, WashPo – it’s everyplace. Now known informally as the “You’re Not Special” speech, Mr. McCullough’s address gently reminded the graduates that they had received more from [...]

FAU Student Snaps During Evolution Lecture, Threatens Class

Everything was peaches and female sexual selection in Dr. Stephen Kajiura’s evolution class late Tuesday morning, when one student lost her cool and ended up threatening the professor and students with violence and assaulting an administrator. According to the Youtube page description for the video capturing the incident, the traits female peacocks look for in [...]

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Dear Allen: Apparently, This Libtarded Website Won an Award

by Salty Eggs Staff

Note from the editor: In the tradition of “Congressman’s Corner,” Salty Eggs has invited former Rep. Allen West to field questions from his South Florida constituents. Having not received a response to our query, we must do our best to answer questions on his behalf, based on what we know of his temperament and politics. [...]

Miami Gallery Locust Projects Celebrates 15 Years With Spring Fling

by Monica Uszerowicz

Locust Projects’ upcoming Spring Fling marks its 15th birthday, but this entire year will serve as one fluid celebration for the organization and gallery, whose projects, endeavors, and overall contribution to the community are as multifaceted as a gemstone. Founded in 1998 by a trio of Miami artists—Elizabeth Withstandley, COOPER, and Westen Charles—exhibits at this [...]

Why Wasn’t All the Spring Breakers Hate Dumped on On The Road?

by Adam Katzman

If you go to the On the Road website, which works Kerouac’s rallying cry about “the mad ones” into HTML shorthand, you’ll notice an attempt to meme the movie into modern relevance. Be it “Were you born into the wrong generation? How would you fare with the Beats?” (hashtagged #TheMadOnes) or “Have you done your [...]

Danation: As Long As We’re Going to Keep Talking About This Fiscal Cliff Business, Can We at Least Have Some Details?
December 13, 2012
Weeks have passed now, and the negotiations over whether to cut spending, raise taxes, do both, by how much, who for, and — what were we talking about anyway? — have continued at a

The New World Symphony Loosens Up Classical Music With Yoga, Club Beats
January 8, 2013
In a city full of bureaucratic bumbling, there is at least one organization that got a shiny, new building in the last couple of years but is still keeping up with its community involvement

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