Florida town petitions to replace Confederate monument with beloved manatee

Published time: 25 Jul, 2017 18:19 Thousands have signed a petition to replace a monument to Confederate leaders and soldiers in Bradenton, Florida with a statue of local aquarium mascot, Snooty the manatee, who just passed away. The granite Civil War monument commemorating Confederate leaders Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis was installed […]

In a Lamborghini Countach, Downshifting Is Like Playing Footsie with a Manatee

  – – I pulled up to the police roadblock prepared to do some fancy talking, but the car did the talking for me. Somewhere up the hill, on the grounds of a sprawling L.A. estate, Lamborghini was having a party. Parking was so limited that the guests had to ride a shuttle bus from […]