florida crazy

You can always, always count on the state of Florida to do the wrong thing. From throwing the election to George W. Bush in 2000, to banning government officials from mentioning climate change, the sunshine state has a track record of catastrophic decision making that puts every ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 3, 2019
• Opinion

In the latest installment of what completely insane thing happened in Florida this week, we have a story that potentially tops them all. Forget  the fact that government officials can’t use the word ‘climate change’ because it is ‘not a true fact‘, it is legal to shoot unarmed ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

Continuing our never ending series covering batshit crazy things that could only happen in Florida, this week it was confirmed that Matthew Riggins, 22, was killed by an alligator while hiding in a lake from police in Barefoot Bay last month. Riggins and another man had ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

There are a few places on planet earth where human culture has morphed into something so bizarre that visiting aliens would likely pack up their spaceships and head back home to Ursa Minor Beta. Places like North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Somalia spring to mind - deeply repressive ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Florida is the craziest state in the union. Although there's no universally agreed upon criteria for this distinction, Americans know this almost instinctively. For their part, Floridians have mostly accepted this fact. Mostly. That's because during an unusually entertaining ...read more

• By Michael Luciano
  Feb 17, 2016