Hate flying? Lost your yacht in the recession? But sure as hell would love a decent rum runner and a handmade straw hat?

If so, you are so in luck, because a new boat called the Bahamas Express Ferry is about to start high-speed service from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale to the Bahamas.

A massive, colorful ferry with the teal 1980s color scheme has been docked near 17th Street for a few weeks now.


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​From director Billy Corben and the minds that brought you Cocaine Cowboys and The U, comes Square Grouper, a new documentary about the heyday of South Florida pot smuggling. The movie has been described as: "a colorful portrait of Miami's pot smuggling scene of the 1970s, populated with redneck pirates, a ganja-smoking church, and the longest serving marijuana prisoner in American history."

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​From director Billy Corben and the minds that brought you Cocaine Cowboys and The U, comes Square Grouper, a new documentary about the heyday of South Florida pot smuggling. The movie has been described as: "a colorful portrait of Miami's pot smuggling scene of the 1970s, populated with redneck pirates, a ganja-smoking church, and the longest serving marijuana prisoner in American history."

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​This week the Transportation Security Administration announced that travelers who don't want strangers to see their naked form in a full-body scanner and also don't want a stranger groping them will not be fined $11,000 for their refusal to cooperate. (If you decline the searches and then bolt for the terminal, you will still be fined.)

But that hasn't stopped thousands of outraged travelers from expressing their displeasure and others from promising to cause long delays on one of the busiest travel days of the year.

And so, for the civil dissidents exercising their right to not be groped, we offer a short list of things you might want to say to the TSA employee about to lay hands on you.

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This could be you.

​If you're not a fan of powerful, liberty-stomping bureaucratic assclowns walking all over basic civil rights, this story might bother you.

Now, the new full-body scanners used by airports have already caused quite a bit of controversy. But Meg McLain, New Hampshire-based marijuana legalization activist and host of the freedom-focused internet radio show "Free Talk Live," claims that on a recent trip to South Florida, she was the victim of a ridiculous exercise in airport authoritarianism.

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