Neil Rogers RIP

It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Neil Rogers.

Neil was a formative influence in my life and helped shape who I am today.  He was smart, funny, irreverent, fearless, and spoke -- sometimes yelled -- truth to power.

Even when he started in South Florida, doing "issue" radio in the mid-70s, he was sui generis.  Although Neil followed in the footsteps of other brash Miami radio icons such as Alan Burke, his persona was entirely different -- Neil knew his yiddishisms, like Burke did, but he took his personal obsessions, quirks, and idiosyncrasies and made them compelling, groundbreaking entertainment.

By the time he abandoned the issue format and let loose his freewheeling mix of hockey, horse racing, movies, politics, cheapskate Canadians, fart jokes, song parodies, and condo commandos, Neil was in orbit and brought his listeners along for the ride.  He exposed phonies, fraud, injustice and pretense, joked about the petty frustrations of life in South Florida, battled with his radio colleagues, censors and management, and proudly wore his political leanings and sexuality on his sleeve at a time and in a place (sports radio) where neither were especially welcomed.

Thank you Neil for saving so many of us, along with all the jokes.

Jackie Bueno Sousa, Legal Scholar.

Hi folks, what a pleasant surprise -- a few more days of sweater weather! Enjoy it while it lasts....

Like her Herald brethren Glenn Garvin, new local conservative Herald columnist Jackie Bueno Sousa is also a legal scholar.

The problem -- yawn -- big jury awards!

Zzzzz.....

(Sorry, I fell asleep there for a moment....)

The solution, like any intellectually rigorous conservative will tell you, involves the state taking the money from the risk-taking individual and giving it to the government:

One method several states have used is a concept called split recovery: The plaintiff only gets a portion of the award, while the other portion goes to a fund created by the state, to be used for a public purpose.

Here's my solution -- give all the money to Alex Alvarez. Frankly, that makes a lot more sense then giving it to the government. Sheesh, what is it with conservatives lately?

Better yet, give Alex Alvarez your column because this is utter crap.

Oy, I feel like I am back listening to South Florida talk radio from the 70s......Normie help me out here.....next up on Steve Kane, Jews vs. slightly more reformed Jews, and then Alan Burke will host an abortion debate!