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The Charlie Crist rumors (Bob Norman, on the Green Iguana) keep popping up, such as in this Politics1 report, repeated today at Huffington Post . 'Recount' doesn't seem to have attracted a lot of reviews, but there's an interesting recap at New York Observer: A Rendition of Bush-Gore that's long overdue . The film, which made its HBO debut on Sunday night, presents what can accurately be labeled a Gore-friendly chronicle of the legal maneuverings that settled the election. But it is also fact-friendly. There was never really any doubt that more Floridians went to the polls on Election Day 2000 to vote for Al Gore than for Bush. And, in the New Yorker, by Jeffrey Toobin, a profile of republican political consultant Roger Stone, who was involved in that Florida recount: The Dirty Trickster . The story opens with a visit to a Miami sex club, but gets more interesting: Not long ago, Stone went to the Ink Monkey tattoo shop in Venice Beach and had a portrait of Nixon’...

In the Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg is covering the Guantánamo trial. She may be the only reporter who's been covering Guantánamo from the beginning. Glitches mar debut of Guantánamo war court . But over at the Los Angeles Times, they have a couple stories that I don't see linked from the Herald's front page: Miami Beach home of Versace reopens as a restaurant-hotel . The memories of that day when Versace was shot and the hunt for his murderer, who it turned out had had a cross-country spree that ended up on an empty houseboat, are chilling. And this: Luis Posada Carriles, a terror suspect abroad, enjoys a 'coming-out' in Miami . Terrorist or hero? Depends on where you're from, I guess.