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When I was very young it was explained to me, by one of my aunts, the reason we eat pork and kraut on New Years is to purge the bitterness and excess of the prior year (the kraut) and to hope for and celebrate the bounties of the New Year [...]

Miami Beach Bruthaz has posted its 2013 trailer on YouTube:

MBB 2013: Back At It! July 18-21 at the Lincoln Arms Suites on South Beach. Don't miss the MBB White Party, the Hip Hop Party, the Rooftop Pool Party, the Bruthaz Luncheon and more! Get the' [...]

From Yoani Sanchez:

Just outside the Virgin of Regla temple, here in Havana, a fortune-teller throws shells for passersby in exchange for money. Every day she gets the same questions: Will they find love? Will they be able to buy a home? Will they be able to travel in the [...]

SB Nation has officially launched the upgraded SB Nation United. Check it out and let us know what you think. You can also head over to Blog Huddle to leave your comments there as well.

Here are the updates to the site that were implemented tonight:

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Afro-Cuban priests prescribe Santeria for Chavez

Yes. That's the solution. Get the santeros to work up some of their demonic magic for the dying man.

Yeah, let's get Satan involved in this.

In case you didn't know this already, the Catholic Church considers Santeria nothing more than devil-worship.  This has been the' [...]

Congress may have kept the nation from going over the fiscal cliff, but it failed to avert a multi-billion dollar hit to Florida’s struggling economy.

The decision to let the 2010 deduction in the Social Security payroll tax expire will cost Floridians an estimated $6.5 billion, said Sean Snaith, director for [...]

Some brain changes that are found in adults with common gene variants linked to disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, and autism can also be seen in the brain scans of newborns. ”These results suggest that prenatal brain development may be a very important influence on psychiatric risk later in life,” [...]

BY BUDDY NEVINS

U. S. Sen. Marco Rubio is playing a dangerous game.

The game is called Marco’s Running For President and it trumps every anything else in Rubio’s life.

As a representative of a state regularly pummeled by hurricanes, Rubio should know that voting against Sandy storm relief hurts real people.

Still, [...]