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• Brief Browse -

  Fans of Miami's Wacky Factor . . .
  
  will be delighted to learn that Dave Barry has a new novel making its debut called Insane City. And NPR has posted a recent interview with him.
  
  # Laura Wilson briefly reviews a clutch of crime fiction picks, [...]
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• Chasing Media Phantoms -

  "Trust your mother, but cut the cards,"
  as the late Sidney Zion used to say . . .
  
  The story about the football player's girlfriend who turned out to be a hoax, which the Mainstream Media went along with, is a cruel story, but not more cruel than [...]
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• Trayvon Case: Backing Down (3 of 3) -

  What about this "Duty to Retreat?"
  
  "You either have the ability to defend yourself without the duty to retreat or you don't," explained Jacksonville attorney Mitch Stone.
  
  How does that premise relate to this case? I believe the State could try to take it in potentially two' [...]
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• Trayvon Case: Backing Down (2 of 3) -

  I have no interest in demonizing a juvenile minor; my point here is that there may have been overly lax supervision of a minor, which was evinced in the youngster's strange reaction to his encounter with a resident of the estate, George Zimmerman.
  
  Instead of simply explaining to Zimmerman [...]
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• Trayvon Case: Backing Down (1 of 3) -

  The Birth Mother of slain juvenile Trayvon Martin has called for the repeal of Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law. Sybrina Fulton, accompanied by a group of state legislators, appeared at a press conference in Tallahassee earlier today.
  
  The defense team for George Zimmerman has received Martin's school [...]
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• Browsing Around -

  Murder off Miami by Dennis Wheatley was originally published in 1936 and then reprinted in the 1970s. Today, it has become a collector’s item. Christopher Fowler wrote about it recently on his blog.
  
  # Anyone miss Max and Freddy, the bicker team of Cologne detectives, from the German Tatort [...]
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• New Spree Groupies -

  Serial and Spree Killers
  have attracted groupies before . . . 
  
  Such a retinue or fanbase has emerged around the accused Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes called the Holmies, which is beginning to attract attention from the Mainstream Media.
  
  Trench Reynolds gives his picks [...]
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• Firestorm Over Boca U -

  James Tracy is a tenured Media and
  Communications professor at FAU in the
  land of the shopping zombies, Boca Loca . . .
  
  Apparently, Tracy has dared to suggest on his blog that alternate theories of what happened in the Sandy Hook mass shooting are possible. [...]
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• A Breezy Browse -

  Alex Harvey has written a feature piece about singer/song writer Tom Waits for the LA Review of Books describing the life Waits once had in Los Angeles which informed the kind of songs he was writing.
  
  # Thomas Pynchon will debut his new novel called Bleeding Edge this [...]
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• Strangers In The Night -

  . . . shoobee shoobee doo . . .
  
  Some of the people you see on the streets here in South Florida may be your neighbors, but some may be just passing through. Some may be roofless, while others may be enslaved. Appearances can be misleading.
  
  An elderly man was catching a [...]
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