For the past few months, this blog has focussed on such weighty national issues as Republican philandering family value poseurs, Alaska's newly departed Guvner Fruitcake and the ever-popular conservative wingnut poobah, Fatboy Rush.

   But with this past week's news that a shark had been sighted flopping about on Miami's Metromover and later turning up dead in the street, it is time again to turn to turn to the magical weirdness that makes Miami a perennial leading contender for gold medals in WTF? competitions from all over. That, and the fact that we have local elections coming up this fall that promise to entice from the woodwork the usual colorful assortment of the minimally employed, the perpetual candidates, the why-nots and the slickly coiffured front men for all the usual suspects in need of all the usual favors.

   Check back in from time to time. It won't be long before we've heaved a gratuitous cheap shot at your favorite candidate.