Florida Agenda

Full disclosure: I have what I consider a mild fetish for what my partner refers to as “Civil War porn.” This should not be confused in any way with, say, a perfectly healthy imaginative use of Confederate gray and Yankee blue to act out a “siege of Fort Sumter” fantasy between consenting adults. Rather, this [...]

CLIFF DUNN Last week, this publication printed a paid political advertisement that had been provided by the Broward County chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans. The half page black and white ad depicted the late U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, as his body was carried out of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which he [...]

A series of unrelated events last week— including the first presidential debate— put me in mind of the shortcomings of both government and business, and helped clarify for me the ridiculous nature of the notion that a President of the United States equates with the CEO of a Blue Chip Corporation, along with the idea [...]

CLIFF DUNN In recent months my boyfriend has made me a fan of the “zombie” genre of horror movies. Believe me when I say, some of the more-dubious fare is well-labeled as “horror.” (Ever the snob, I prefer more “realistic” offerings, like the AMC cable network’s compelling and dramatic “The Walking Dead” series to some [...]

CLIFF DUNN This week, I took the arguably drastic step of “de-friending” some people on Facebook who I felt had taken the whole “post whatever is on your mind” thing a bit too far. (I have seen some doozies, believe me, including someone who, moments before I forever “blocked” them, had posted an image of [...]

We celebrate an anniversary this year that many of you may not have known existed. In 2012, we say “happy birthday” to Family Values. Not the actual, loving kind passed on from generations of parents to generations of children, but the political kind— the kind that scoundrels like Limbaugh and Hannity can use to score [...]

“Faith and science have at least one thing in common: Both are lifelong searches for the truth. But while faith is an unshakable belief in the unseen, science is the study of testable, observable phenomena. The two coexist, and may at times complement each other. But neither should be asked to validate the other. Scientists [...]

CLIFF DUNN I was at a barbecue over the weekend at my boyfriend’s family’s place, and before the corn on the cob had even been thrown onto the gas grill, someone asked me for whom I was voting in November’s presidential election. After good-naturedly breaking his balls about the sacro-sanctity of my vote and its [...]

CLIFF DUNN “It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the President or anyone else.” – Theodore Roosevelt I used to love the national political conventions, but no longer. Over the next two weeks, politically active Americans will “drink the Kool Aid” and engage in saber-rattling diatribes and unleash the most unpleasant hyperbole [...]

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” – Charles Mackay  CLIFF DUNN – EDITOR It’s probably a case of residual childhood naivety—and, admittedly, way too early in the silly season—for me to [...]