MiamiHerald.com: Carl Hiaasen http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/index.html MiamiHerald.com: Carl Hiaasen http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Carl Hiaasen 60 Sun, 04 May 2008 03:04:11 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com White politicos have their own pulpit gasbags http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/518862.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/518862.html Sun, 04 May 2008 03:01 EDT If Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright were white, he'd probably have his own church show on television. Maybe even his own network. He could promise fantastic miracles that never come true and predict terrible disasters that never happen, and he could fleece millions of dollars from poor, gullible viewers. Firearm law adds danger to workplace http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/492387.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/492387.html Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Happiness is a warm gun in a steaming hot car. After years of wimping around, Florida lawmakers finally passed a law that will allow you to bring your favorite firearm to work, providing you leave it locked in your vehicle. Don't trust this gang with our state's future http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/474099.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/474099.html Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:01 EDT The panel of wizards assigned to fix Florida's gross tax inequities has impulsively broadened its scope to a social issue in which its expertise is even more dubious. Iraq: No light at the end of the tunnel http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/466225.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/466225.html Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:01 EDT On the five-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, President Bush declared that the United States is on the way to winning the war. What can go wrong in the 're-do'? Only everything http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/457642.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/457642.html Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:01 EDT Ten most-asked questions about a possible re-do of the Florida Democratic Primary. 1. This whole thing is just a gag, right? Somebody's lame idea of a joke? What is the dictator doing right now? http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/429278.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/429278.html Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:01 EST A Day in the Life of a Retired Dictator: 7:30 a.m. For breakfast it's my usual bowl of Mueslix with plantains. Then I call Raúl to get the latest numbers on the sugar cane crop, which haven't improved by one lousy hectare since yesterday. Our reputation for flakiness is at stake http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/421075.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/421075.html Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:01 EST In a move that could endanger Florida's flaky backwater reputation, the state Board of Education is poised to endorse the teaching of evolution as a science. We should all have an ex like this one http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/141137.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/141137.html Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:01 EDT Every divorced guy would love an ex-wife like Barbara Gomez. As the chief of Miami's public housing agency, she helped funnel more than $1 million in city contracts to companies employing one of her former husbands.