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Best of the Rest: April 19, 2010

Jeb Bush as Florida’s Vladimir Putin, Charlie Crist as Florida’s Shakespeare, Healthy Start in jeopardy, Publix’s cheapness, and more.

Discralimer and frequently asked questions on how Best of the Rest is put together, its aims, and so on.

The fallout from Crist’s veto of SB6, Obama sees stars again, how Bush’s CIA destroyed evidence, the greatness of John Paul Stevens, and more.

Charlie Crist’s future,the fate of Senate Bill 6,Tea Party brewers, Islamophobia in Jacksonville, sex lives of famous women, and more.

War crimes and atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan,more merit-pay SB6 follies, Huckabee’s homophobia, monument mania, and more.

More pressure on Crist over Senate Bill 6,an autistic child goes missing, school lunches slim down,poverty in America, pedophile priests, and more.

Crist takes Florida’s pulse on teacher bill, spills and drilling in the Gulf, GOP scandals, Gandhi’s sex life, and more.

Merit-pay follies in Florida, feral cats in San Francisco’s CSI lab, another V-22 Osprey crash kills US troops, and the problem with Dr. Oz.

Freaks and furies over merit-pay bill, states against health care reform, Casey Anthony’s letters, painting organsms at UF, and more.

Florida’s war on teachers, gambling with Indians, remembering civics education, Obama’s supreme court odysseys, and more.