We’re nearing general election season. The Republican primary is over now. The Paul campaign, as usual, never really got off the ground. The Gingrich campaign went careening into a ditch on March 13, when Alabama and Mississippi picked Santorum over Gingrich, despite the man from Georgia’s race-baiting, xenophobic campaign. And Santorum’s campaign is like something [...]
Note from the Editor: In the tradition of “Congressman’s Corner,” Salty Eggs has invited Rep. Allen West to field questions from his South Florida constituents. Until we get a response to our query, we will do our best to answer questions on his behalf, based on what we know of his temperament and politics. Dear [...]
Quick — name a Swedish international bestselling author of an intense and addictive trilogy of thrillers. Stieg Larsson? No. Leif GW Persson? Yes. In contrast to my regard for Persson, who just released the second novel in his trilogy (the third has not yet hit the bookstores), I would never classify Larsson as a writer of [...]
Earlier this week, Phyllis Schlafly, one of the most outspoken anti-feminist women of the 20th century, told an all-male class at the Citadel in South Carolina that they should never date a feminist. “Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it,” she’s quoted as saying. “Some of them [...]
Now that Mitt Romney has secured the Republican nomination — or rather that the media are forced to give up the horserace narrative they’ve perpetuated to make this primary season something other than a big snooze fest — the next overblown mystery du jour shall be Romney’s VP pick. Of course, speculation has been going [...]
My car broke down, but at first, I wasn’t scared. I was uncomfortable. I was in fetish wear, and deep down we all know that both men and women react differently to a person depending on what he or she wears. Last Saturday night, I was on my way to Miami to pick up a [...]
Another three Republican presidential primary contests took place last night, and boy howdy! That Wisconsin one sure was a nailbiter, kinda sorta! Wowee, nothing like a close horse race, and … no, no, no. I can’t do it. No rational person could possibly be interested in the Republican nominating process anymore. Mexican-American presidential candidate Mitt [...]
I love Jane Austen. No, wait — I adore Jane Austen. I find myself re-reading Pride and Prejudice about once a year simply because, when I don’t have anything to read, I know I can turn to Jane. I’m a sucker for it all — the romance, the sickly fascinating ways of English society (people [...]
When Miami/Gainesville/Atlanta act Torche first started gaining media steam some five or six years ago, it was most often as part of breathless trend pieces on a supposed wave of metal revivalists. (Though Torche themselves never got stuck with the tag “hipster metal,” around 2006, they were often name-checked in the same articles about bands [...]
Thousands gathered Sunday at Miami’s Bayfront Park for the Trayvon Martin Justice Rally, including civil rights icons Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, former Miami Heat player Alonzo Mourning, a couple of Florida legislators, and the queen of funk Chaka Khan. Vendors hawked T-shirts, posters were passed around in the seated section, and onlookers and families [...]
