Carl Hiaasen of the Miami Herald has retired.

[Gomez Adams]

If you'd asked me before this morning who Carl Hiaasen was, I wouldn't have known. But I just saw this retweet from Rick Wilson and read it out of curiosity.

I'm glad I did. You should too.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1371425200936517632

Excerpt:

Once I called Miami City Hall a “bribe factory,” and another time described Tallahassee as a “festival of whores.” Too subtle? Possibly.​

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One time, the Legislature authorized random drug tests for state employees. Lawmakers mysteriously exempted themselves, so I offered to personally pay a big lab so that every one of them, including the governor, could pee in a cup.​

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No volunteers. Wonder why.​

 

[Zeedox]

He does sound likeable!

 

[Grimhogun]

I used to read the Herald a lot years ago. It got to be 30 pages of advertising with 2 pages of stories in it and I gave it up. You'd read a paragraph on page one then have to find another part of that article in section D then it would be continued on some page in section E. It got to be a damn scavanger hunt to read the damn paper so I stopped reading it.

 

[Gomez Adams]

Popular Mechanics and Popular Science have gotten the same way.

They both read more like a catalog of merchandise now than a magazine. I'm considering canceling both.