“Good roads” is quite a stretch, but “no insects?” I almost have to respect them for their unmitigated gall.
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Last night’s flooding
Last night was just a tropical storm and not a hurricane, but Nebraska Avenue south of Sligh — not a tiny road, but a main thoroughfare — flooded so much that a number of cars had stalled out there. It gave me serious Philippines deja vu, where flooding often happens after a typhoon.
We flew home from Toronto yesterday, and fortunately, we landed about 20 minutes before the storm hit. I took the photo above from our ride.
Because the Walmart at 15th and Hillsborough (a.k.a. Supercenter #5964) is a bike-able distance from home, has Coke Zero (a vice that makes you productive can’t possibly be a vice) at the best per-unit price, and reasonably well-stocked “ethnic” and “specialty” food sections, I’m there about once a week.
And since I go on bike, I see everything that happens in the parking lot. And at a Walmart — a Florida Walmart — that can be a lot.
But I was really surprised when I saw a pair of jeans, fairly neatly laid out — just as you might lay out your jeans on a dresser for the next day — on a trash can, and on top of them, a black cloth mask, also laid out as if on a dresser.
It was in the middle of asking myself “Now why would someone need to remove their pants and mouth covering in a Walmart parking lot?” that I figured out the answer.
“Well,” I thought, “now’s a good time to leave.”
And I did just that.
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Ron light, green light
You may have already seen the triumphant tweet from Karol Markowicz, who’s shilling her article in the New York Post as well as Governor Ron DeSantis’ news release about Florida now having the lowest COVID-19 case rate.
She vaingloriously announces that it was achieved in this fashion:
“without vaccine mandates, without mask mandates in school & with no restrictions on businesses. Life simply went on.”
What Markowicz failed to mention is life did not go on for 60,000 Floridians. Author Chuck Wendig nailed it on the head with this response:
“This orphanage, which already burned down, has the lowest case presently of burning orphans in the country. They did it without any anti-fire measures and no restrictions on flammable orphans. Life simply went on. After the fire already engulfed the orphanage and burned out.”
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Just another Monday in Florida
Happy Monday, everybody!
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DipShantis logic
- Not really a governor, but an authoritarian performance artist for an audience of one (who “fucking hates” him)
- Not really smart, but has that canny cleverness of a squirrel at an amusement park enticing visitors to feed him
- Has the next best thing to a personality: a set of responses to specific stimuli
- Less worried about public health because there are underfed kids to starve and transgender kids to stop from playing sports