I swear I don’t go looking for this stuff.

Once again the Orlando Sentinel website has outdone itself, this time a story by Amy L. Edwards where some porn people are suing other porn people.    Amy Edwards is the “Breaking News” reporter for the Orlando Sentinel.   She apparently filed this gem at 6:26pm on January 18th….JUST AS THE STORY BROKE…

“Photos on male escort Web site at center of lawsuit”

Forget about whether or not this is BREAKING NEWS, HOW IS THIS NEWS AT ALL???????

Newspapers are crying about how they are losing money?  It’s because their reporters are busy writing about civil cases involving PORN.  That’s right…go for the cheap clickthroughs, Amy.  Tight work there, hun.

Photos on male escort Web site at center of lawsuit – OrlandoSentinel.com.

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This past June, President Obama signed “The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” granting the Food and Drug Administration greater regulatory power over the amount of nicotine in tobacco products, and the authority to ban candy flavorings that appeal to kids and block misleading labels such “low tar” and “light.”

Starting today, September 22nd, 2009 it is no longer legal to sell flavored cigarettes…

…a cigarette or any of its component parts (including the tobacco, filter, or paper) shall not contain, as a constituent (including a smoke constituent) or additive, an artificial or natural flavor (other than tobacco or menthol) or an herb or spice, including strawberry, grape, orange, clove, cinnamon, pineapple, vanilla, coconut, licorice, cocoa, chocolate, cherry, or coffee, that is a characterizing flavor of the tobacco product or tobacco smoke.  SOURCE:  FDA Letter to Industry on Cigarettes Containing Certain Characterizing Flavors

Despite a significant decrease in the percentage of Americans who smoke in recent decades, more than 400,000 Americans still die from tobacco-related illnesses every year.  Tobacco-related health care costs exceed $100 billion annually.  SOURCE:  CNN Obama Signs Bill Putting Tobacco Products Under FDA

Every year, almost 1,000 smokers and non-smokers are killed in home fires caused by cigarettes and other smoking materials.  SOURCE:  U.S. Fire Administration

The first time I quit cigarettes, it was the cloves that drew be back….because I had convinced myself that cloves weren’t really cigarettes (and therefore somehow okay?!?).   Then I quit again, only to pick them up 5 years later after my divorce.   But this time it was the Marlboro Ultra Lights I smoked…again somehow convincing myself I was doing less damage than if I smoked Lights or Regulars.

I  am happy to say smoked my last cigarette (clove or otherwise) on December 12th 2008.   I wish I’d have quit sooner (or never started).

Ban on flavored cigarettes goes into effect — OrlandoSentinel.com.

Another piece of brilliant journalism from the Orlando Sentinel.   I can’t figure out the point of this story other than to point out that God apparently doesn’t want Charlie Thompson to have a job.  And apparently God didn’t want him to have 3 of his kids.

My favorite part is where the writer admits that he can’t argue with the fact that Charlie is no dummy:

“It’s like, ‘Hey, you’re not a dummy.You know this stuff,’” he says.    I can’t argue with him.

Fruitland Park couple with 3 kids, no job — relying on God — OrlandoSentinel.com.

Just stumbled upon this piece of journalistic preciousness:

Explosion at office building near OBT, Sand Lake Road deemed ‘minor’

No injuries reported

Amy L. Edwards and Susan Jacobson Sentinel Staff Writers

8:31 PM EDT, July 31, 2009

An explosion this afternoon forced the evacuation of a building at a south Orange County business park.

Nobody was hurt in the 4 p.m. explosion, which several workers witnessed in the courtyard in the 7700 block of Southland Boulevard, the Sheriff’s Office said. The park is near Sand Lake Road and South Orange Blossom Trail.

Investigators said the device was thrown over the building into the courtyard, but they made no arrests. Damage was minor and the device was weak, although some debris landed in front of the building, they said.

That’s the whole thing.  So let me get this straight…

Several workers witnessed an explosion.   The source of the explosion was a device of some sort (weak device…apparently not a bomb?) that “was thrown over the building into a courtyard”.   Presumably by someone but they don’t know who.

Excuse me, but WTF?????

Is somebody bombing buildings near the Florida Mall?

Possible explosion reported: Bomb squad responding to OBT, Sand Lake area – OrlandoSentinel.com.